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Illuminated haggadot from medieval Spain : biblical imagery and the Passover holiday
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Illuminated haggadot from medieval Spain : biblical imagery and the Passover holiday

Author: Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain describes how the Sephardic Haggadot reflect different visualizations of scripture under various conditions and aimed at a variety of audiences. Though the specifics of the creation of these  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Illustrations
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Katrin Kogman-Appel
ISBN: 0271027401 9780271027401
OCLC Number: 65425821
Description: xxii, 295 p., [133] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: I: Acculturation and borrowings from Christian art --
The manuscripts --
Motif books and images from memory: image making in the golden Haggadah and British library, Or. 2884 --
The Rylands Haggadah and British library, Or. 1404 --
The Sarajevo Haggadah and the Bologna-Modena Mahzor --
Other methods of image making --
II: Meaning and message --
Jewish biblical Exegesis employed in the strategy of image making --
Designing the messages of the Sephardic picture cycles: the cultural profile of the people involved.
Responsibility: Katrin Kogman-Appel.
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Emerging in Spain after 1250, Jewish narrative figurative painting became a central feature in a group of illuminated Passover Haggadot in the early decades of the fourteenth century. This book  Read more...

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