![]() ![]() Illuminated Saint John’s Bible will be part of Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s new exhibit from The Oklahoman.Oklahoma City Museum of Art exhibit showcases The Saint John’s Bible and the beauty of illumination from the Oklahoma Gazette. ![]() Sacred Words Exhibit Opens This Weekend from The Oklahoman.What to OKC in November from OKC Convention & Visitors Bureau.18, 2016: See the new exhibit ‘Sacred Words’ at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art from The Oklahoman Three Tips to Visit an Oklahoma City Museum with Kids from Metro Family.“Sacred Words: The Saint John’s Bible and the Art of Illumination” on view at OKCMOA from Art Daily. ![]() 8, 2017, will examine the revival of a millennia-old tradition of meticulous handcraftsmanship that incorporates advances in modern technology.ĭiscover The Saint John’s Bible with Tours, Classes, and Events Sacred Words presents the concept, historical context, technical execution and significance of The Saint John’s Bible and illumination as an art form. However, so this edition is relevant today, it employs a modern English translation as well as beautifully painted illuminations that interpret biblical passages in contemporary terms. The Bible incorporates many of the characteristics of its medieval predecessors: it is written on vellum, using quills, natural inks, hand-ground pigments, and gold-leaf gilding. ![]() The theological aspects of the project were guided by a committee of theologians, artists and scholars at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota. The Saint John’s Bible was created by a team of 23 scribes, artists and assistants headquartered in a scriptorium in Wales under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson, one of the world’s foremost calligraphers and the scribe to Queen Elizabeth’s Crown office at the House of Lords. Sacred Words includes a selection of original, unbound illuminated manuscript folios on calfskin vellum from The Saint John’s Bible, as well as sketches, drawings, inks and tools used to create the manuscript. Sacred Words: The Saint John’s Bible and the Art of Illumination opened October 15 at OKCMOA and includes seventy selected folios from The Saint John’s Bible as well as other historical illuminated manuscripts, such as a Book of Hours, Quran pages, and Torah scrolls. See Robert Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis, 1977, p.69 and first illuminated, handwritten Bible of monumental size to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era is now on view at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. It is remarkably similar in composition to a Pontifical for the use of Châlons-sur-Marne (BnF, ms.lat.1246) and stylistically related to a Psalter owned by the Counts of Guines (BL Add.MS. The style of illumination is associable to Paris c.1230 and is characterised by its soft, three-quarter faces and accentuated drapery folds. Provenance: the leaf belongs to a series of four other full-page miniatures associated with an early 13th-century French devotional manuscript, namely 'The Virgin as Intercessor', Ferrini and Fogg, Medieval and Renaissance Miniature Painting, 1, 1988, no 4 'Scenes from the life of St Mary Magdalene', Ferrini and Fogg, 2, 1989, no 2 'The execution of four apostles', idem, no 3 'The martyrdoms of Sts Stephen, Lawrence, Adrian and Thomas Becket', Sotheby's 3 December 2002, lot 51 Sotheby's 22 June 2004, lot 13. A quadripartite miniature divided into arched compartments by blue, red and gold frames topped by gothic buildings and depicting the martyrdoms of St John the Evangelist and St Sebastian, a crowned St Helena with book and processional cross and St Scholastica with book and crozier, all on grounds of burnished gold, verso blank (wear and pigment losses, especially to the face of St Helena, probably from kissing, two faces retouched, slight smudging to figures surrounding St Sebastian, upper margin cropped affecting upper extremities of the buildings). FOUR SAINTS, full-page miniature from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUMġ77 x 136mm. ![]()
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