Images of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets in the “Crespi Chronicle” and related manuscripts. Iconographic origins and parallels
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2023-3-72-85
Abstract
The article is devoted to images of Old Testament prophets and patriarchs, contain in Pictures-Chronicles’ miniatures. In them compositions, going back to a common source (the lost cycle of monumental paintings in Giordano Orsini palace), world history is represented as “famous people” images from different times. The essay focuses on specific features of the Crespi Chronicle, the Cockerell Chronicle and their later copies, and on changings of illustration program in the Florentine Pictures-Chronicle and manuscript from Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica (Amsterdam). Autor outlined the representation principles of biblical images in manuscripts, and traced their iconographic parallels in pictorial tradition of medieval cultures and Quattrocento visual arts.
About the Author
M. G. Piven
Russian State University for the Humanities; Moscow Theological Academy
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Marina G. Piven, Cand. of Sci (Art Studies), associate professor of Russian State University for the Humanities,
6 Miusskaia Sq., Moscow, 125047;
Moscow region, Sergiev Posad, Lavra
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Piven M.G. Images of Old Testament patriarchs and prophets in the “Crespi Chronicle” and related manuscripts. Iconographic origins and parallels. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2023;(3):72-85. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2023-3-72-85
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