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Jonah Prefiguring the Resurrection (Khludov Psalter)

A page from the Khludov Psalter pairing Psalm 69 with Jonah, whose cry from the deep waters prefigures the resurrection (Psalms 69). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

Jonah Prefiguring the Resurrection (Khludov Psalter) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 69:1
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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.