The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
Portrait of Luke, folio 200 (recto), from a Gospel Book with Commentaries
c. 1000–1100
Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1942.152.200.a
Location: 105 Byzantine
Description
Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.- -1942Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1942-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:
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