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Angel of Protection (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 91)

A page from the Khludov Psalter illustrating Psalm 91, where God charges his angels to guard the faithful and bear them up in their hands lest they strike a stone (Psalms 91). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

Angel of Protection (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 91) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 91:11
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Depicted passages

Psalms 91:11-12Primary
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About Master of the Khludov Psalter

Byzantine

Anonymous 9th-century Byzantine illuminator (or workshop) responsible for the Khludov Psalter, a marginal psalter containing some of the most polemical iconophile imagery surviving from the Iconoclast Controversy.

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