The Anointing of David (Theodore Psalter, Ps. 78)
A page from the Byzantine Theodore Psalter illustrating Psalm 78, which tells how God chose David his servant, taking him from the sheepfolds to shepherd his people (Psalm 78). 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.