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Crossing the Red Sea (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 78)

A page from the Khludov Psalter joining Psalm 78 to the crossing of the Red Sea, where God divided the waters and led his people through on dry ground (Psalms 78). A tempera illumination on parchment from the Byzantine Khludov Psalter (c. 850).

Crossing the Red Sea (Khludov Psalter, Psalm 78) by Master of the Khludov Psalter depicting Psalms 78:12
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Depicted passages

Psalms 78:12-16Primary
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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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