Terrance Lindall - The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll

The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll

Terrance Lindall During his year-long celebration of John Milton's 400th birthday (which began December 8, 2008), Terrance Lindall created "The Paradise Lost Gold Illuminated Scroll," a scroll that reads from right to left like a Torah . Completed December 8, 2009, the scroll is now in the Milton collection at the Yuko Nii Foundation. It is 14 inches high and over four feet long, with 24 karat gold illuminated miniature paintings. It has been well received by Milton scholars and collectors worldwide. Copies are now in some of the world's foremost collections including:

1) Huntington Library in California, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The Huntington’s highlights include one of the world’s most extensive collections of William Blake material, most notably Blake's original illustrations for Paradise Lost.

2) The University of Pennsylvania rare book collection, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. The university holds over 560 exemplars of books printed in Europe from movable type before 1501. Sixty-six of these titles are the only recorded copies in North America.

3) The University of Kentucky, gift purchased by Professor Joseph Wittreich, noted Milton scholar and collector. Their collections include many famous artists.

4) The Alexander Turnbull Library in the National Library of New Zealand.

5) The collection of Robert J. Wickenheiser, one of the world's foremost collectors( of Milton books and original illustrations for Milton's works.

6) Professor John Geraghty

7) The Thomas Cooper rare book library at the University of South Carolina

Scholarly reaction included:

"I think you are rather overemphasizing the 24k gold leaf, because the real 'gold' lies in the perceptions incorporated in the artist's concepts. This is the best since Blake and Doré." - Nancy Charlton, Milton Lists{

"Terrance: Would that Milton had been as rich in writing about his great epic as you have been about everything you have written about your scroll and the inspiration for it. I don't mean to sell Milton short by any means because, like all great artists, somewhere in his writing can be found his own profound reasons for what he has done and why he did it. In this you stand side by side with the great bard in wanting your paintings to be appreciated and understood." - Dr. Robert J. Wickenheiser, 19th President of St. Bonaventure University

“Thank you Terrance. I am grateful for all you are doing. It is an amazing project. You are creating a great legacy.” - Professor John Geraghty

“This is stunningly beautiful! There is so much to look at, both traditional and intriguingly mysterious. It really makes me think of Blake's 'Marriage of Heaven and Hell,' as well as some of the Serbian iconography I've been looking at recently in the monasteries of Fruska Gora. I visited the ancient monastery and chapel of Hopovo, and the brilliant colors of the figures crowding into the inner sanctum recall your powerful sunsets and energetic (yet static) figures.” - Professor Karen Karbiener, Department of English, New York University