Open AccessSalvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)
Author(s) -
Fanar Emma Maayan
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
zograf
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.104
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2406-0755
pISSN - 0350-1361
DOI - 10.2298/zog1438031m
Subject(s) - byzantine architecture , iconography , art , prayer , eleventh , character (mathematics) , plea , art history , literature , classics , philosophy , theology , law , physics , geometry , mathematics , political science , acoustics
The article explores iconography of the illuminated initial letters in the tenth-eleventh-century Italo-Byzantine psalter (Vatican, Barber. gr. 285). It is argued that its initial letters clearly express Byzantine attitude to personal prayer, a plea for salvation and the struggle with evil through the words of Psalms, despite the mixture of models, most of which are certainly of non-Byzantine character