Images in the Bayeux tapestry and Rodes Bible
Montserrat Pagès Paretas
This paper analyses images from two masterpieces of 11th-century Romanesque art, namely the Bayeux Tapestry (Musee de la Tapisserie Bayeux) and Rodes Bible (Paris, Bibliotheque nationale France, MS Lat. 6) – with a view to examining how why shrines or reliquaries were depicted. The artefacts in question respectively created monastic houses at Canterbury Ripoll, both which housed Carolingian psalters great significance. In Canterbury, Utrecht Psalter, opera magna school Reims, lies root magnificent manuscript illumination before Norman Conquest had an impact on expressive styles adopted Tapestry. colophon lost Ripoll Psalter allows us infer that it was produced palatine scriptorium time Charlemagne Charles Bald. style first most remarkable miniaturists speaks for itself. A single folio is here studied: carrying miniature Temple Jerusalem, depicting Old Testament shrine Ark Covenant along Prayer Solomon, Feast Dedication Temple. As regards Tapestry, scene considered oath sworn by Harold between new interpretation offered.