Medieval manuscript r.IX century

In this example of the 9th century, we did not find a character who prostrates before an imposing cross with thin arms and impreganada of a red salable red. The whole scheme follows the same execution of the previous model, and is a great fund covered by numerous letters in allusion to the importance of the Latin alphabet as sustenance of medieval culture and its doctrinal currents. The example here shown concerns a scene of a clearly devotional character in which the figure of the cross is praised as the Christian truth or logos from which is drawn a huge red cross superimposed on a smaller figure, idealized as A human being dressed in the clerical way and is associated with the idea of the believer prostrate before the enormous truth from the word of God and gives worship and respect through devotional signs such as: hands together sen sign of prayer and his stooped posture In favor of the signal of much respect to the same deity and his word. The quality of the colors in this case is not that it is very sharp, but however, they are perfectly used by elements cited earlier in the other slides, these are: minium, oropimente, coal, azurite ... The treatment of Forms is perfectly delimited by a dark stroke produced by the thick trace of the coal that is imposed on the others. It is true that compared to the other images above, it is very bad due to its lack of sharpness and is that surely the passage of time or poor state of conservation have been the responsibility of its current state in which the lack Of intensity in some tones, such as red, is more than reproachable.

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