#Medieval illuminations birds full#

This meant that the children could really study in detail each picture. The front cover above gives some idea of the size and quality. And this is a book with many, large quality photos of pages of the book of Kells. For that reason, I had them pay more attention to the incredible photographs than the text. This is quite a heavy going, information rich book for 11 year olds. This was a book I had found, quite by accident in a charity shop, and thought it might come in handy.

#Medieval illuminations birds full#

The book of Kells, full of Irish and Northern Bristish manuscripts, was created by monasteries all over during the 7th and 10th centuries:Īs it had been over a year since we had looked at the book of Kells I had them spend some time flicking through this book:

The children had already come across a variety of manuscripts in their previous studies. Only then would we move on and study in more detail the works of the Limbourg brothers. Before we studied their work in depth, I had decided we would look at medieval illuminations as an art form first to become familiar with them as a genre of art. They are famous for their ‘Book of Hours’ which is full of some of the most beautiful illuminations. Our artist study this term will be the Limbourg Brothers.