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Perhaps no other art form captures the spirit of the Early Medieval period better than the illuminated manuscripts the were created by the monks and religious scholars. Illuminated manuscripts are very important to us today because they can express the ideas and ....

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.... by fancy initial letters. Very often, in these initials you can find the scenes that describe the life of David. The most beautiful paintings in this manuscript are the full-page paintings from the calendar that replace the much smaller fancy first letters. This particular painting is the picture of the month of May. This drawing is very bright and shiny. In this painting a knight on horseback rides out to go hawking. The hawker is covered with an expensive white fur. It suggests that the knight is very rich. It is a male horse and it has very small ears. The knight is shown at the moment of taking off the hawk's hood, a rarely depicted detail ....