Das Book of Kells

Language:Chinese.Paperback. Pub Date: 1995 Pages: 96 in Publisher: Thames & Hudson The Book of Kells is a spectacular group of withmanuscripts created in Ireland and northern itain between the 7th and 10th centuries. a period when Irish monasticism was in the vanguard of Christian culture. Its earliest history remains controversial. but it was in the keeping of the monastery of Kells. Co. Meath. for most of the Middle Ages - hence its name - and has been in the liary of Trinity College. Dublin. since the mid-17th century. It is a masterpiece of medieval art - a illiantly decorated copy of the four gospels with full-page descriptions of Christ. the Virgin and the Evangelists as well as a wealth of smaller decorative painting that does not always relate to the sacred text. The strange imagination displayed in the pages. the impeccable technique and the state of preservation ma...