Irish Art [continued][21st February 1991]

[Redbook8:284][19910221:1142m] Irish Art [continued][21st February 1991]

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‘It is to the fields of metalwork and manuscript illumination that the epithet “Golden Age” truly refers. Ancient Celtic designs deriving from the LaTène period, consisting of abstract whorls and spirals,* remained a hallmark of Early Irish art (see Celtic Art)’

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*(See illus[tration] from The book of Durrow, 1^st folio of St. Mark’s Gospel, – E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 3:393.)

– & fr[om] Lindisfarne Gospels, E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 3:394

**– E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 3:392

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