Salvific imagery in the Barberini psalter (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Barb. gr. 285)
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...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
2014-01-01
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| Series: | Zograf |
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| Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-1361/2014/0350-13611438031M.pdf |
| Summary: | 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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| ISSN: | 0350-1361 |