The Genesis Page of the Alcuin Bible: Its Layout and Visual Repertoire
Robin Cook
The Genesis page of the Alcuin Bible or Bamberg (Staatsbibliothek Msc Bibl 1) is, it seems to me, an unusual Carolingian illustration, distinctively different from pages two other great bibles Tours school, Moutier-Grandval (London, British Library, Cod Add 10546), and First Charles Bald Vivian (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Lat 1). This first part my study concentrates on its composition. Using a series tracings, I explore composition page, concluding that particularly sophisticated design skills were employed in layout, those not as layouts bibles. comparison also indicates change visual repertoires: figures related motifs trees - all which are very particular style used pages. Their figures, while similar gestures position, drawn quite differently, their belong another artistic tradition.
The Journal of Australian Early Medieval Association