The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting by Janet Backhouse, Janet Backhouse
The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting

Janet Backhouse, Janet Backhouse

The Lindisfarne Gospels: A Masterpiece of Book Painting

Janet Backhouse, Janet Backhouse

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"The Lindisfarne Gospels" is one of Britain's greatest artistic treasures, a surviving example of Anglo-Saxon book painting of the late-seventh century. Written and illuminated in honour of God and St Cuthbert, in about AD 698 by the monk Eadfrith...

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