Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285) | Zendy

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Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)

Author(s) -

Fanar 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

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