Thursday, August 27, 2009

Actually I did find some images from the Eadwine Psalter which I mentioned yesterday. Turns out that since these pages arrived in the collection alone, excised from their original source, they are cataloged just as M.521 and M.724. These images - of Moses and Joshua, miracles of Jesus, and the linkage of Old and New Testaments through Jesus' nativity in David's city and the tree of Jesse - are primitive in some ways (like the roughly contemporary ceiling at Zillis!), but decisively the work of an artist self-consciously using space and color to tell his story.