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RELIGIOUS ICONOGRAPHY

Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Several scenes from the Creation in one image
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / First Day: Creation of light
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Second Day: Creation of the Firmament
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Third Day: Creation of the dry land / Creation of plants
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Fifth Day: Creation of Fishes and Fowls
Old Testament / Genesis / Creation / Sixth Day: Creation of beasts / Creation of beasts
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Creation of Adam / God giving Adam life
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Creation of Eve
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve / Before the fall / God commanding Adam and Eve not to eat from the tree
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / The Serpent seduces Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) / Serpent with serpent head
Old Testament / Genesis / The Fall and Expulsion / Expulsion from Eden / With an angel at the gate
Old Testament / Genesis / Adam and Eve after the Fall
Old Testament / Genesis / Cain and Abel / Sacrifice of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4:3-5) / Both sacrifices in one composition
Old Testament / Psalms / Cycles / The Utrecht Psalter and related manuscripts / Paris Psalter - original drawings

Further details

Rows 1-2: Six days of Creation (apparently, day 3 is shown twice and day 4 omitted); row 3: Creation of Eve; God commands Adam and Eve not to eat from the Tree; Fall; row 4: Expulsion; Work of Adam and Eve; Sacrifice of Cain and Abel

Artist or creator

Canterbury (Christ Church)

Date

1180 - 1200

Location

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 8846

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 1r.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Henri Omont, Psautier illustré (XIIIe siècle). Reproduction des 107 miniatures du manuscrit Latin 8846 de la Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris 1906, plate 1

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