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The Golden Age of English Manuscript Painting 1200-1500
Marks, R., N. Morgan.
Paperback. 120 pp. Very richly illustrated. George Braziller, Inc. 1996.
Forty colour plates illustrated examples of some of the finest medieval paintings, with an accompanying commentary and bibliography. The comprehensive introduction discusses the role of court patronage in English manuscript illumination, the decline of monastic scriptorium and subsequent rise in the range and diversity of books being illustrated, style and foreign influences and the significance of Anglo-Saxon traditions of drawing in the thirteenth-century