Sujet

Initial E: David Lifting up His Soul to God, about 1455-1461. Creator: Franco dei Russi.

Légende

Initial E: David Lifting up His Soul to God, about 1455-1461. Additional Info:David kneels in a mountainous landscape set against a darkened sky. He holds his harp in his left hand while raising the small white figure of his soul up to God, at upper left, with his right hand. Winged children, known as putti, climb through the colorful curling vines that fill the margins of the page. This impressive leaf is the frontispiece of the first volume of an antiphonal belonging to a famous series of at least fifteen choir books commissioned by Cardinal Bessarion (about 1399/1408-1472), who was a papal representative in Bologna between 1450 and 1455, and whose coat of arms appears in the lower margin of this page.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A71_139

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,5Mo (2,3Mo) / 30,1cm x 42,0cm / 3558 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Italy Italian people male man men red music religious arts country detail religion metal book guy color colourful design decoration decorative scene medieval Greek Christianity gold Greece deity God kneeling text Byzantine depiction location century page ink symmetry Bible David alphabet literature Biblical concept details symmetrical decorated sheet music margin manuscript posture musical note lettering illustrated Colour inset Old Testament description mediaeval Middle Ages Latin text gold leaf Byzantium Chronicles 15th century antiphonary fifteenth century frontispiece hymn book illuminated manuscript tempera vellum illustration ink manuscript Biblical scene Byzantine Empire gold Rossi Latin Script lower case Antiphonal letter E Folio Books of Chronicles choir book Heritage Art scrollwork song book 1450s Detached leaf recto Decorated Initial Tempera colours gold leaf and ink Franco dei Russi Russi Franco dei Bessarion Cardinal Bessarion