Lindisfarne Gospels Carpet Page

Each carpet page contains a different form of cross stressing the different church traditions and their ecumenical relationship.

Lindisfarne gospels carpet page.

They are pages of mainly geometrical ornamentation which may include repeated animal forms typically placed at the beginning of each of the four gospels in gospel books. Standard scenes from the life of christ in art. Jerome and pope damasus i. Introduction to the middle ages.

Lindisfarne gospels john cross carpet page f 210v british library the book is a spectacular example of insular or hiberno saxon art works produced in the british isles between 500 900 c e a time of devastating invasions and political upheavals. The lindisfarne gospels begins with a carpet page in the form of a cross and a major initial page introducing the letter of st. Essay by louisa woodville. Google classroom facebook twitter.

Carpet page posted on december 14 2015 by mrsbowman1 cross and carpet page for st. Matthew folio 26 verso of the lindisfarne gospels from northumbria england c. Christianity an introduction for the study of art history. Medieval art in europe.

In the lindisfarne gospels the carpet pages play a similar role preparing the reader for the the gospel message.