The Lindisfarne Gospels


An accessible book on this masterpiece of book painting.


Janet Backhouse


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Price: USD$19.95

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Overview
  • The first book to make the Lindisfarne Gospels - one of the world's masterpieces of book painting - available to a wider public
  • This precious relic of early Christianity in England was produced at the end of the 7th century in honour of Saint Cuthbert, and is one of Britain's greatest treasures
  • Important illuminated pages are reproduced in colour from a new and accurate set of photographs
  • Discusses the process by which the manuscript was made, and relates it to earlier and contemporary works of art


 

About the author(s)
Janet Backhouse was Assistant Keeper in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library. She is the author of The Illuminated Manuscript, also published by Phaidon.


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