Africa & Byzantium
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York
19th November 2023–3rd March
2024 |
:
Illustrations
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Pentaglot
Psalter. 12th–
14th century,
restored and
rebound 1636. Ink
on parchment,
36.8 by 28 cm.
(Biblioteca
Apostolica
Vaticana,
Vatican City, MS
Barberini or.2,
fol.3r; Bridgeman
Images; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Textile
fragment with
Artemis and
Actaeon(?).
5th–7th century.
Linen and wool,
147.3 by 183 cm.
(British Museum,
London; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
7. Diptych with
St George
and the Virgin
Eleousa. c.1500
(left) and c.1480–
90 (right).
Tempera and
gold on wood,
open: 12.2 by
20 cm. (Private
collection; exh.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York).
4. Altar frontal. 1741. Gold, silver and silk threads on silk, 67.5 by 97.5 cm. (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
5. Alexander Romance. Rome, 1538–44 and unknown location, sixteenth century. Tempera and ink on parchment, 24 by 17.8 cm. (‘Matenadaran’ Mesrop Mashtots’ Institute-Museum of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan, MS 5472; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Non-western art unattributed:
6. Khachkar. Lori Berd, twelfth to thirteenth century. Basalt, 182.9 by 98.4 by 22.9 cm. (History Museum of Armenia, Yerevan; exh. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Book Review
Das Lemberger Evangeliar. Eine wiederentdeckte armenische Bilderhandschrift des 12. Jahrhunderts
105. St John the Evangelist, by Mesrop of Khizan. 1650. Tempera, 23 by 17.5 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu; Exh. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).
Western art unattributed:
103. Canon Tables with St Matthew, from a Gospels Fragment. Sisian, 1296. Tempera, 30 by 23 cm. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).
Western art unattributed:
104. Dedicatory Page in Marshall Oshin Gospels. Cilician, 1274. Tempera, 27.5 by 20.5 cm. (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York).
Book Review
Armenian Miniatures of the 13th and 14th Centuries from the Matenadaran Collection, Yerevan
The Chester Beatty Library: A Catalogue of the Armenian Manuscripts with an Introduction on the History of Armenian Art |
author: Nersessian, Sirarpie der