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To open the Book of Kells is to cross a threshold, into a world where every letter is a labyrinth, every page a prayer, every image a portal. Created around 800 CE by Celtic monks, likely on the remote Scottish island of Iona and later brought to Kells, Ireland, this illuminated Gospel manuscript reimagines scripture as sensory revelation. Four Gospels. 680 pages. Lavish, otherworldly decoration on calfskin vellum. Gold, lapis, verdigris, carbon black. The Book of Kells doesn

It is not a painting. It is not a scroll. It is not quite a tapestry, either. And yet, the Bayeux Tapestry, nearly 70 meters long and stitched with wool yarn on linen, remains one of the most cinematic works of medieval art ever created. It unfurls like a storyboard, chronicling the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066, culminating in the Battle of Hastings. But this is not just about war. It is about vision, spin, and the way art becomes authority. Can