Thursday, February 29, 2024

Road trip?

Experts believe that three different artists illustrated the pages, and three or four scribes copied the text. The medieval monks who created the book hand-painted each of its 680 pages using around 10 different domestic and imported pigments.
~Erin Kelly, about the Book of Kells

I just saw that there is an immersive Book of Kells experience at Trinity College, Dublin. Did you see the VanGogh immersive experience? It reminded me of that.






Folio 34r contains the Chi Rho monogram

Folio 2r contains one of the Eusebian Canons
The Book of Kells

The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), circa 800

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1 comment:

  1. PopFebruary 29, 2024 at 10:01 AM

    Wow...this is amazing! The detail, the focus, the intricacy, the beautiful (and sometimes exotic) inks.

    Thanks for showing us this, Tabatha.

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