Hang Around the World: Painting #011

Monday, July 14, 2014

Painting #011 - Medieval Bibles

Bible moralisée
"This Bible, as indeed all the picture Bibles of the Middle Ages, did not contain the full text of the Bible ..... Short passages only were cited, and not so as to give any continuous sense or line of thought."

"God as architect of the world"
- Frontispiece of Bible Moralisee (34 x 25 cm) c.1220–1230
- Austrian National Library

"God shapes the universe with the aid of a compass. Within the perfect circle already created are the spherical sun and moon and the unformed matter that will become the earth once God applies the same geometric principles to it. A view of the earth influenced by Ancient Greek Geometry and icons of the Eastern Orthodox Church."

The Lindisfarne Gospels
... is an illuminated manuscript gospel book produced around the year 700 in a monastery at Lindisfarne. The manuscript is one of the finest works in the unique style of Hiberno-Saxon or Insular art, combining Mediterranean, Anglo-Saxon and Celtic elements.

"Chi-Rho" monogram
- Gospel of Matthew (34 x 25 cm) c.960
- British Library (London)

Book of Kells

Chi Rho Monogram
- Book of Kells, Folio 34r (33 x 24 cm) c.1200
- Trinity College (Dublin)

The Man, The Ox, The Lion & The Eagle
with the four evangelist symbols
- Book of Kells, Folio 27v (33 x 24 cm) c.1200
- Trinity College (Dublin)

Reference:

The Four Evangelists
- Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678, Flemish)
- oil on canvas (134 × 118 cm) c.1625-1630
- Louvre (Paris)

The Four Evangelists: Matthew the Apostle, Mark the Evangelist, Luke the Evangelist, John the Evangelist.

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St Denis Missal

(One page in the) St Denis Missal
- (23 x 16 cm) c.1350
- Victoria & Albert Museum (London)

Note: A missal is a book which contains all the texts and music needed by a priest to celebrate Mass. This particular missal was made for use at one of the altars in the royal abbey of St Denis, Paris.

The Dormition of the Virgin

Source: Wikipedia