Ebbo Gospels

St. Mark's illustration
St. Mark's illustration from the Ebbo Gospels
Yearc. 816-35
OwnerMunicipal Library (Epernay, France)

The Ebbo Gospels is an early Carolingian illuminated Gospel book known for its expressionistic, agitated illustrations. The book was produced in the ninth century at the Benedictine Abbaye Saint-Pierre d’Hautvillers, and was named for Ebbo, the archbishop of Reims at the time of the creation of the manuscript. The manuscript contains the four Gospels by Saint Mark, Saint Luke, Saint John, and Saint Matthew. The evangelists illustrations are characterized by an anti-classical emotionalism, which can be observed in other Carolingian manuscripts such as the Utrecht Psalter and the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram and espresses a Christian conception of God; and by a dynamic linearism and use of illusionism to depict tridimensionality. Its style influenced Carolingian art and medieval art.

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