The Anointing of David (Theodore Psalter, Ps. 89)
A page from the Theodore Psalter illustrating the psalm's words about the Lord finding David his servant and anointing him with holy oil to be king (Psalms 89). A tempera-on-parchment miniature painted by the Byzantine scribe Theodore of Caesarea in 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.