This mind-bending illuminated manuscript was created in AD700 by Eadfrith, a monk who was as entranced by pattern and abstraction as Jackson Pollock Eadfrith, according to a 10th-century inscription, ...

The Lindisfarne Gospels have a uniquely important place in the art and culture of the North East, and the Christian heritage of the area. The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the Millennium ...

Today is the last chance to see the Lindisfarne Gospels at Durham Cathedral. It brings to an end a three month exhibition in the centre of Durham City. Almost 100,000 people have been to see the ...

Close examination has shown that this awe-inspiring work of the Lindisfarne Gospels’ script and illustrations was undertaken by one artist-scribe, whom the 10th century monk Aldred identified as the ...

Excitement is building as one of the most revered books in UK history is set to return to the North East on September 17. Here's everything you need to know about the Lindisfarne Gospels return to the ...

The composition of the cross-carpet page on folio 138v of the Lindisfarne Gospels can be analyzed correctly only in terms of the large forms and ornamental details, and the way they are related and ...

Three fine pages of pure ornament depicting single-arm crosses proportioned as 4 × 3 form a set of greatest value to our efforts to understand concepts of form in early Insular (Hiberno-Saxon) art.

Sometime around the turn of the 8th century, on Lindisfarne, a windswept island off the English coast in Northumbria, a monk by the name of Eadfrith sits down and sharpens his quill. He dips it into ...

The 1,300-year-old Lindisfarne Gospels will return to the north-east of England next year. The famed manuscript, which dates back to Anglo-Saxon England, will go on show at Newcastle's Laing Art ...