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The Ascension (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 24)

A page from the Khludov Psalter joining Psalm 24 to the Ascension, as the everlasting gates lift up their heads for the King of glory to enter in (Psalms 24). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

The Ascension (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 24) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 24:7
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Depicted passages

Psalms 24:7-10Primary
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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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