A murderer among the angels : the frontispiece miniatures of Paris : Gr. 510 and the iconography of the archangels in Byzantine art

Author

Maguire, Henry

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Sacred image East and West

Author (monograph)

Ousterhout, Robert (Editor, Collective Author); Brubaker, Leslie (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Sacred image East and West. 1995, 63-71, ill.

Publisher

University of Illinois Press, Urbana (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

This illuminated manuscript of the homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, MS gr. 510) was produced for Basil I between 880 and 883. It contains a sequence of five painted pages at the beginning of the book which were designed to associate Basil with the angels and to project his desire for salvation (despite the fact that he murdered his way to the throne).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination -- Turkey
• Bibliothèque nationale de France||Paris (FRA)
• MS gr. 510 (Gregory of Nazianzus, Homilies)
• Manuscript illumination
• Byzantine
• Turkey
• Homiliaries
• Manuscripts
• Iconography
• Christian iconography
• Angels
• Commissions

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure -- Turquie
• Bibliothèque nationale de France||Paris (FRA)
• Enluminure
• Byzantin (art)
• Turquie
• Homéliaire
• Manuscrits
• Iconographie
• Iconographie chrétienne
• Ange
• Commande d'oeuvre d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960101-00281628

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