Honest reflections by artists explain how Bible journaling and drawing is, for them ... If the tradition of the illuminated manuscript is being democratized, as the success of this book seems to ...

Curator Julian Harrison, who runs the blog, also mentioned the drawing when he spoke to The Guardian about his job and the new popularity of illuminated manuscripts on the Web. It's an interesting ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver.

The illuminated ... draw upon examples of Roman, Byzantine and Insular art. Simultaneously, these led to the development of a new style characterized by great creativity and efficacy. At the time of ...

British Library Back in the day, monks owned the keys to the intellectual kingdom—the ability to read, write and produce the illuminated manuscripts that held religious and educational ...

Conservators and scientists studying illuminated manuscripts in Cambridge say their ... where pigments were made and reveal artists' "under-drawings", she added. Members of the team hope the ...

A rare medieval illuminated manuscript has been uncovered in a York convent's archive. Dr Hannah Thomas discovered the 15th-Century Arma Christi at Bar Convent while cataloguing the religious ...