which includes this facsimile of a Carolingian carved ivory book cover. “According to a monastic writer at St Gall, the ivories with the Virgin and St Gall were carved by the monk Tuotilo, whose ...

The magnificently illuminated codices draw upon examples of Roman, Byzantine and Insular art. Simultaneously ... bright light on the ideal of the political and cultural unity of the Carolingian empire ...

hardly any other works of art have formed the image of Ottonian art as much as the miniatures which originated there. After the decline of the Carolingian Empire, political consolidation, the renewal ...

The conference accompanied the Fitzwilliam Museum’s bicentenary exhibition COLOUR: The Art and Science of Illuminated Manuscripts. This interdisciplinary conference brought together ...