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Book Of Kells: The Work Of Angel
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The Book of KelIs - The Work of AngeIs explores how the greates lrish Manuscript to survive from the middIe ages came to be made on the edge of the then known world. From the intricacies of its minute details to the mastery of the overaII design of the great illuminated pages, this fiIm reveaIs in wornderfulIy lavish cinematography the glorius acievement of its artists, scribes and scholars. This epic documentary ranges across IreIand, the Hebrides of ScotIand and as far away as Coptic Egypt. lt explores how the monks of the monastery of lona founded by St. CoIumba, combined the influences of the east with CeItic and Pictish craft traditions in metal working and stone carving, to create a work which was so astonishing in its elaboration that for centuries The Book of Kells was considered to have been the 'work of angels'. |
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