Gospel Book
A illuminated gospel book from around 1120, made by an unknown scribe and painter, probably for use in a monastic or church setting. The four pictures show seated evangelists in gold-ground frames with bright blue and red fields, writing on lecterns or holding scrolls and books with patterned interlace borders. A designer could take the flat gold backgrounds, saturated blue and vermilion palette, and the decorative interlace framing as models for layout and colour.
