The Lindisfarne Gospels
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
17th September–3rd December |
:
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
5. Trumpington
Cross. 7th
century. Gold
and garnet,
diameter 3.5
cm. (Museum of
Archaeology and
Anthropology,
University of
Cambridge;
exh. Laing
Art Gallery,
Newcastle).
Western art unattributed:
6. Beginning of
the Gospel of
St John from
the Lindisfarne
Gospels. c.700.
Vellum, 36.5 by
27.5 cm. (British
Library, London,
Cotton MS Nero
D IV, fol.211r;
exh. Laing
Art Gallery,
Newcastle).
Western art unattributed:
7. Eagle, symbol
of John the
Evangelist.
Northumbria
or Iona, c.700.
Vellum, 28.5 by
21.9 cm. (Corpus
Christi College
Cambridge, MS
197B; exh. Laing
Art Gallery,
Newcastle).
Publication Received
The St Andrews Sarcophagus: A Pictish Masterpiece and Its International Connections