Sujet

Bible, 1637-1638. Creators: Malnazar, Aghap'ir, Baghram.

Légende

Bible, 1637-1638. Canon table and portrait of Eusebius of Caesarea. This Bible was written and illuminated in the Armenian quarter of Isfahan, the capital of Persia (present-day Iran) in the 1600s. The artists Malnazar and Aghap'ir lavishly decorated this book with scenes from the Old Testament, such as the Creation of the World, and portraits of the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They also included a set of six elaborately decorated canon tables that help the reader to cross-reference the same story in more than one of the four Gospels. The artists framed each chart with an archway delicately adorned with fanciful animals, peacocks, roosters, plants, and, for the first canon table, a small portrait of Eusebius of Caesarea, who developed the canon tables in the 300s.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A22_245

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

88.5Mo (7.5Mo) / 40.1cm x 55.3cm / 4741 x 6528 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Europe animal people male job man men animals Asian Asia historical religious bird birds country religion metal guy occupation continent color decoration decorative Greek Christianity gold Greece text location century gesturing profession Bible floral Iran Iranian concept decorated hand gesture manuscript lettering flowered writer 17th century Colour Armenian author Persian Persia Ancient Greece gold leaf Ancient Greek history historic seventeenth century historian illuminated manuscript TGN vellum manuscript Eusebius chronicler Heritage Art Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Eusebius Pamphilus Malnazar Aghap'ir Aghapir Baghram Ep'rem Eprem