贾哈里斯拜占庭经文选

君士坦丁堡

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 303

这份手稿中细腻刻画的四幅福音书作者肖像都带有精致的边框,使人想起掐丝珐琅,它们代表了十一世纪晚期至十二世纪早期拜占庭艺术的巅峰。此图上,白发苍苍的福音书作者马太坐在一面城墙之前,上方写有他的希腊文名字。有证据显示这份手稿是为拜占庭帝国的主教教堂——圣索菲亚大教堂而作,它体现出拜占庭人对书籍艺术的浓厚兴趣。扉页上的文字说明,这份手稿在十八世纪初依然在君士坦丁堡,曾是耶路撒冷的大主教克里桑索斯·诺塔拉斯的财产,他是“希腊启蒙运动”早期的重要成员之一。

Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary, Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment; leather binding, Byzantine

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Folios 2v-3r, opening page of the Gospel of Saint John