Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch

Informationen zum Autor Dorothy Verkerk is Associate Professor of Art History and Fellow of the Institute for Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A scholar of early medieval art, she has contributed to The Art Bulletin, Journal for Medieval and Early Modern History and Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäolgie. Klappentext This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch, an early medieval illuminated manuscript whose pictures are among the earliest surviving biblical illustrations. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the Ashburnham Pentateuch! an early medieval illuminated manuscript of the Old Testament whose pictures are among the earliest surviving and most extensive biblical illustrations. Dorothy Verkerk shows how the lively and complex illustrations of Genesis and Exodus were used to explain important church teachings. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A painted primer; 2. Script, text, illuminations, provenance; 3. Principal narratives; 4. The right order of life; 5. The Italian origin considered; 6. An Italian manuscript; 7. A Roman clergy.

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• Authors: Dorothy Verkerk, Dorothy (University of North Carolina Verkerk, Verkerk Dorothy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2011
• EAN: 9781107402003
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40200-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Illustration, Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, ART / History / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, ART / European, DESIGN / History & Criticism, Christianity, History of Art, British & Irish history, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, history of design, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis