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This pen drawing, |
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The central figure, seated
on some kind of crenelated, towered and remarkably "organic"
throne
has some stylistic relationship with contemporary Anglo-Saxon manuscripts from the so-called "Winchester School", though there is nothing (which survives) from this "school" of illumination which really corresponds to the dynamism apparent here. Various elements of the figure style suggest a lineage which goes back to the late Carolingian stylistic tradition behind such manuscripts as the Utrecht Psalter (which is known to have been in England in the 10th century). |
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Four figures are splayed
in an "X" pattern around this central figure, |
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