[Northkeep] Fw: [VR] Paleontologist discovers 3-D secrets of Middle Age designs of Kells' 'angels'

[katrina hardesty]

Hello Friends,
We had this posted on our list here in Chattanooga. I just thought some of my friends in Northkeep might enjoy them.
YIS,
Aurora

--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Mariann Eaves <drmrsgal at yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Mariann Eaves <drmrsgal at yahoo.com>
Subject: [VR] Paleontologist discovers 3-D secrets of Middle Age designs of Kells' 'angels'
To: VR at yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 10:22 AM


  




By Lauren Gold






Lindsay France/University Photography

Professor John Cisne looks at a facsimile of folio 85v in "The Book of Durrow," a manuscript with microscopically detailed illumination. 


The Book of Kells and similarly illustrated manuscripts of seventh- and eighth-century England and Ireland are known for their entrancingly intricate artwork -- geometric designs so precise that in some places they contain lines less than half a millimeter apart and nearly perfectly reproduced in repeating patterns -- leading a later scholar to call them "works not of men, but of angels."
But behind the artwork's precision is a mystery: How did illustrators refine the details, which rival the precision of engravings on a modern dollar bill, centuries before microscope lenses were invented?
More to be found here:
 
http://www.news. cornell.edu/ stories/Sept09/ KellsAngels. html
YIS, 
 
Saraqan
P.S, Reminder: There will be a Scribal Night held at the HL Juliana's tonight.. check the calendar for directions and times
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