St. Albans Psalter
Painting and Prayer in Medieval England
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Publication
2013 - Getty Publications
Language
English
Word Count
26,000 words, Guess
Page Count
104 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28512394M
- ISBN-139781606061459
- OCLC Control Number830124447
- Library of Congress Control Number2013006536
Classifications
- LCCND3357.S12S7 2013
Description
The St. Albans Psalter is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in twelfth-century England. It was probably created between 1120 and 1140 at St. Albans Abbey, located on the site where Alban, England's first saint, was martyred. The manuscript's powerfully drawn figures and saturated colors are distinct from those in previous Anglo-Saxon painting and signal the arrival of the Romanesque style of illumination in England. Although most twelfth-century prayer books were not illustrated, the St. Albans Psalter includes more than 40 fullpage illuminations and over 200 historiated initials. Decorated with gold and precious colors, the psalter offers a display unparalleled by any other English manuscript to survive from the period. In 2007 the St. Albans Psalter was removed from its binding and in 2012 the disbound leaves traveled to the J. Paul Getty Museum.0Exhibition: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA (20.09.2013-02.02.2014).
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