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Jewish book art between Islam and Christianity : the decoration of Hebrew bibles in medieval Spain /

This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles. Unlike illuminated Passover manuscripts from the same period with their rich figurative and narrative picture cycles, Bibles are almost exclusively aniconic. Whereas the former borrow heavily from Christian art, the Bibles are...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Kogman-Appel, Katrin
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Hebrew
Publié: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Collection:Medieval and early modern Iberian world ; v. 19.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Preface; List of Illustrations; List of Maps and Diagrams; Introduction; Chapter One: Acculturation, Assimilation, and Convivencia: The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages; Chapter Two: The Artistic Environment of Illuminated Sephardic Bibles; Chapter Three: The Castilian Workshops of the Thirteenth Century; Chapter Four: Joshua ibn Gaon and Joseph Hatsarfati; Chapter Five: The Catalan Workshops of the Fourteenth Century; Chapter Six: Cultural Transition and the Art of the Hebrew Book; Chapter Seven: Castilian Schools of the Fifteenth Century; Conclusion; Bibliography.