![]() God is depicted in the center with the Virgin Mary on the side. The symbols of the four evangelists are on each corner. The gospels were written and illuminated in Aachen around 795 AD. The script was written with golden ink on purple pages, which shows the importance and gives you an idea of the cost of the book. Gold, in itself, has always been a luxery, but historically, purple was the color of royalty because it was so expensive to make. The color could only be made with tens of thousands of ground up shells from a certain variety of snail.īelow is a study I did of the little angel that watches over St Matthew in the picture of St Matthew from the Ebbo Gospels. In doing this study, I was actually really surprised with what I found. If you zoom in on the image, it looks like it would be fairly simple to sketch, but there is so much more detail than one might think. I used a pencil and a technical pen to sketch this image. Upon closer examination, you can tell that the image was done with a pen that had a flat tip, much like a calligraphy pen. It is almost impossible to duplicate the strokes, the messy urgency, the vibrant feeling, without a pen of the same sort. The hardest part was the end of the strokes. If you look closely at the original image, you can see that the end of every line has a little corner that is turned up or some kind of nub on it. ![]() In which manuscript does a disembodied head appear from behind. It is that reason that it is so hard to duplicate. Which is NOT a scene depicted on the Hildesheim doors of BishopBernwardThe Last Supper. The other thing I learned from doing this study, is that they did not need to use very many lines in order to communicate to the viewer that this was an angel, the symbol of St Matthew. There were not very many hard lines that one would use to form the outline of what they were drawing. However, there were many other strokes and colors, other than the ones that I have included, used in this image. The two readings are visible in two popular modern translations: ESV: 16 And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. All of them were messy and vibrant, keeping with the style of the rest of the painting. The documents we know as Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written sometime in the second half of the first century A.D. 17 So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ. (I’ll say more about the dating of the gospels in Chapter 4.) They were. NIV 16 At that time they had a well-known prisoner whose name was Jesus.
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