MEDIEVAL ICONOGRAPHY

THE PASSION

THE CRUCIFIXION


Click on one of the following for the Biblical reference:

SEE ALSO : Isaiah 53 : 2-10,; Act Pil IX, X, XI, XVI, James, 1924, pp 102-105,113 


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EARLY CHRISTIAN

 

ROME, S SABINA
PORTAL (detail)  5th C

RABBULA
GOSPELS
Syria, 586 AD



EARLY MEDIEVAL: HIBERNO-SAXON

 

DURHAM GOSPELS
7th c

ST GALL GOSPELS 

7 th or 8th c



CAROLINGIAN

 

STUTTGART
PSALTER, 9th c
Psalm 21 (22)

NEW YORK, CLOISTERS
METZ IVORY c 878



BYZANTINE



 
 

NEW YORK, Metropolitan Museum
17.190.715
Cloisonné reliquary 9th c. ?

NEW YORK, Metropolitan Museum
17.190.44
ivory plaque 10th c




OTTONIAN

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL, GERO CROSS  c. 960
 

 

SACRAMENTARYOF BISHOP ABRAHAM OF FREISING, c. 980-90
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 6421, f. 33v


GOSPELS OF BERNWARD 
OF HILDESHEIM

UOTA GOSPELS
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek clm 13601 f.3v 



ECHTERNACH GOSPELS

ESCORIAL, Cod.Vitr.17, f. 83
EVANGELIARY of HENRY III
1043-45



ANGLO SAXON


 

SHERBORNE MISSAL

WINCHESTER
PSALTER



10 th C SPAIN & ITALY



GERONA
BEATUS 975 



ROMANESQUE



 

LIMOGES 
SACRAMENTARY

VALENCIENNES
SACRAMENTARY



c 1220 STYLE



 

KLOSTERNEUBURG
AMBO 1181

HELMARSHAUSEN
GOSPEL BOOK

HORTUS DELICIARUM 
(before 1176-c. 1196)



GOTHIC


 

ARRAS, BM 38 f 105v
Missal of Arras

BURGO DE OSMA Cathedral 165, f. 42v
Missal

HUESCA CATHEDRAL
Missal

NEW YORK, THE CLOISTERS,
Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux

PARIS, MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, PAREMENT DE NARBONNE




DUCCIO: Siena Cathedral, Maesta (detail)

GIOTTO: Padua, Arena Chapel
(detail)

BOHEMIA, panel

CHANTILLY, MUSÉE CONDÉ,

TRES RICHES HEURES OF JEAN de BERRY
1413-16

NEW YORK, MORGAN LIBRARY,

HOURS OF CATHERINE OF CLEVES
 after 1434



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