Angel Approaching David (Theodore Psalter)
A page from the Byzantine Theodore Psalter, where a marginal image accompanies Psalm 89 and its words that God spoke in a vision to his faithful and exalted a chosen one from among the people (Psalm 89). Tempera on parchment by Theodore of Caesarea (1066).
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About Theodore of Caesarea
1000-1080 · Byzantine
Byzantine monk-illuminator who in 1066 produced the Theodore Psalter (BL Add MS 19352) at the Stoudios Monastery in Constantinople — one of the most fully illustrated marginal psalters surviving from the post-iconoclastic period.