Sentences with phrase «on scriptorium»
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The Normans established scriptoriums in many monasteries in the 11th century, and their appetite for animal skins must have had a «huge impact» on the animals raised, notes Naomi Sykes, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
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In a show of good sense he directed that the place be named Engelthal, or ìValley of the Angels, î rather than Swinach — ìPlace of the Pigs.î But it was Ulrich's final provision that would have the greatest impact on my life: he mandated that the monastery establish a scriptorium.
Kushner's most recent installation, Scriptorium: Devout Exercises of the Heart, is a group of over one thousand drawings of flowers and plants on book pages that date from 1500 to 1920.
The exhibition comprises nine recent paintings and the installation Scriptorium, which consists of hundreds of drawings of flowers, leaves, and plants on antique book pages that date from c. 1500 to 1920.