The vision of Prophet Isaiah in the Vatopedi psalter 760 and the depiction of the subject in the Komnenian period
Abstract
This article examines the illumination of the Ode of Isaiah (Song of Salvation, Isaiah 26) in Psalter no. 760 in the Vatopedi monastery on Mt Athos. The miniature depicts the prophet’s Vision (Isaiah 6), which means that there is an unusual disaccord between text and image. This could be attributed to the diffusion of this iconographic subject in Byzantium during the period of the Komnenoi. Illustrations of Isaiah’s Vision were probably used to rebut then current heresies relating to Christ’s role in the sacrament of Holy Communion, or in connection with the Komnenoi’ s effort to combat the heresy of the Bogomils, who had created a distorted version of the Vision of Isaiah.
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ΣΚΩΤΤΗ Τ.-Π. (2011). The vision of Prophet Isaiah in the Vatopedi psalter 760 and the depiction of the subject in the Komnenian period. Deltion of the Christian Archaeological Society, 28, 181–192. https://doi.org/10.12681/dchae.585
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