Master of the Khludov Psalter850

The Crucifixion with Iconoclasts (Khludov Psalter, fol. 67r)

The mocking of Christ at Calvary paired with iconoclasts whitewashing an icon of Christ — one of the most famous polemical images of the Iconoclast Controversy.

The Crucifixion with Iconoclasts (Khludov Psalter, fol. 67r)
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Depicted passages

Psalms 68:21-23Primary
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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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