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BBC Documentaries: Season 2008

2008x31 Illuminations: Treasures of the Middle Ages
TV-PG

  • 2008-05-07T20:00:00Z on BBC Scotland
  • 1h
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Art critic Andrew Graham-Dixon visits an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, which contains a treasure trove of the world's most important illuminated manuscripts. Germaine Greer joins the modern-day illustrator Quentin Blake to consider the religious and political power of these beautiful medieval masterpieces, and to assess their place in the history of art and book production.
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