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David Composing the Psalms (Khludov Psalter)

A page from the Khludov Psalter showing David, whose songs open with the blessing of the one whose delight is in the law of the Lord (Psalms 1). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

David Composing the Psalms (Khludov Psalter) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 1:1
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Depicted passages

Psalms 1:1-6Primary
Portrait of Master of the Khludov Psalter

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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