Tuesday, July 5, 2011

I'm impressed by ... Paul Antonio

Paul Antonio featured in episode 2 of the BBC documentary series ‘Guilty Pleasures’ in which he demonstrated calligraphy, using a quill, and spoke of the Lindisfarne Gospel (an illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). The manuscript was produced on Lindisfarne in Northumbria in the late 7th century or early 8th century, and is generally regarded as the finest example of UK religious art, a style that combined Anglo-Saxon and Celtic themes & called Hiberno-Saxon art, or Insular art. The manuscript is complete (though lacking its original cover).

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