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Middle-Byzantine evangelist portraits : a corpus of miniature paintings / Georgi Parpulov.
Fine Arts Library ND2930 .P378 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parpulov, Georgi, author.
- Series:
- Manuscripta Biblica. Paratextus Biblici III ; volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Bibliography.
- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine.
- Painting, Byzantine--Bibliography.
- Painting, Byzantine.
- Miniature painting--Bibliography.
- Miniature painting.
- Bible. Gospels--Illustrations--Bibliography.
- Bible.
- Bible. Gospels.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 167 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
- Summary:
- "Author portraits are the most common type of figural illustration in Greek manuscripts. The vast majority of them depict the evangelists Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Being readily comparable to one another, such images illustrate the stylistic development of Byzantine painting. In addition, they often contain details which throw light on elements of Byzantine material culture such as writing utensils, lamps, domestic furniture, etc. This corpus offers catalogue descriptions of all evangelist portraits that survived from the Middle Byzantine period, i.e. from the mid-ninth to mid-thirteenth century. Items are arranged in roughly chronological order and are grouped according to common compositional types: readers will thus be able to trace iconographic similarities by going through a series of adjacent entries and to distinguish period styles by browsing through larger blocks of entries. The book thus provides, in effect, a selective survey of middle-Byzantine painting. A surprisingly large number of Byzantine evangelists portraits remain unpublished: seventy-five of the miniatures reproduced in this volume have never appeared in print before." --Provided by publisher
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783110754636
- 3110754630
- OCLC:
- 1302110712
- Publisher Number:
- 99992601010
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