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Kells Portraits and Eastern Ornament
09/1938 | 426 | 73
Pages: 121-123
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Author:
Picton, Harold (Picton, Harold)
Subjects
places:
Ireland
subjects:
Irish / Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Christian iconography / Assyrian / Influence
works:
Book of Kells (Trinity College Library, Dublin)
works:
Lindisfarne Gospels (British Library, London)
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
A-Lion of St. Mark, from Cod. Lat. 9389 (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris); B-Gold Dish, from the Nagy-Szent Miklos Treasure. About A. D. 860 (Kunsthist. Museum, Vienna); C-Winged Horse. About A. D. 700 (Hsien-Yang-Hsien, Shansi); D-Head of St. John. Detail from the Book of Kells. Late Eighth Century (Trinity College, Dublin); E-Waldalgesheim Flagon, Detail. About 380 B. C.; F-St. Matthew, Cod. 1395, Fol. 418 r. Eighth Century (Stifts-Bibliothek, St. Gallen); G-Head of Matthew Symbol. Detail from the Lindisfarne Gospels. About A. D. 700 (British Museum); H-Knives. Bronze (Minusinsk); J-Gold Deer from Kul Oba, near Kertch. About 490 B. C.; K-Detail from the Book of Kells. Fol. 292 r.; L-Gold Plaque from Verkhne-Udinsk, South Irkutsk (Hermitage, Leningrad). Kells Portraits and Eastern Ornament