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Mary Concepta Lynch

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Mary Concepta Lynch, born Bridget Mary Lynch in Booterstown, Dublin around November 4, 1874, was an Irish nun, educator, illuminator and calligrapher. She was the daughter of Thomas Joseph Lynch, a celebrated Dublin illumination artist known as the King of Celtic Art, and inherited both his artistic legacy and his business after his death in 1887. After entering the Dominican Order in 1896 she combined her religious vocation with her art, teaching and spending sixteen years ornately decorating the interior of the Oratory of the Sacred Heart at St. Marys Dominican Convent in Dun Laoghaire with Celtic Revival designs drawn from medieval Columban manuscript traditions and Byzantine Christian aesthetics. She died in Dun Laoghaire on April 30, 1939. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Manuscript Illumination, Art Forms
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    She was the daughter of Thomas Joseph Lynch, a celebrated Dublin illumination artist known as the King of Celtic Art, and inherited both his artistic legacy and his business after his death in 1887.
  • Practices: Calligraphy, lead paragraph
    Mary Concepta Lynch (1874-1939), was an Irish nun and skilled artist, illuminator, and calligrapher, who spent 16 years ornately decorating the Celtic design in the Oratory of the Sacred Heart at St. Mary's Dominican Convent in
  • Practices: Manuscript Illumination, lead paragraph
    Mary Concepta Lynch (1874-1939), was an Irish nun and skilled artist, illuminator, and calligrapher, who spent 16 years ornately decorating the Celtic design in the Oratory of the Sacred Heart at St. Mary's Dominican Convent in
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Wikidata: Mary Concepta Lynch
Wikidata Q55165168, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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