Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting

Автор: Carl Nordenfalk
Название: Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Painting
Издательство: George Braziller
Год: 1977
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 136
Язык: English
Размер: 22 MB

In the seventh and eighth centuries, as the early art of book illustration in the centers of Roman culture was diminishing, other centers arose and flourished in the Anglo-Celtic countries. From monasteries and island workshops emerged such famous illuminated manuscripts as The Book of Kells, The Lindisfarne Gospels, and The Book of Durrow, with their intricate designs, as well as their extravagantly elongated and knotted representations of hounds, birds, snakes, lizards, and mythical creatures.