Morgan Beatus: The Three-Dimensional Cosmos of the Adoration of the Lamb
Public Deposited- Last Modified
- February 26, 2019
- Creator
-
VanNest, Lauren
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Art and Art History, Art History
- Abstract
- “As part of its adornment I have painted a series of pictures for the wonderful words of its stories so that the wise may fear the coming of the future judgment of the world’s end.” These words are found in the colophon of the Morgan Beatus (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, Ms. 644), written by the scribe and illuminator Maius in the tenth century. The Morgan Beatus was created in San Miguel de Escalada in Tábara, Spain, sometime between 940 and 945. This is a copy of an eighth-century illuminated manuscript by Beatus of Liébana, both the text and imagery inspired by previous writers. Beatus of Liébana was a Spanish monk who lived in northern, Christian Spain between 750 and 798 and wrote one of the most influential commentaries on the Book of Revelation of his day. Beatus’s Commentary on the Apocalypse was emulated for several centuries and the illustrations in the surviving manuscripts have come to typify the art of Christian Spain during the medieval period. This chapter will focus on the historical background of the Morgan Beatus in order to illuminate how the Adoration of the Lamb, folio 87 of the Morgan Beatus (Figure 1), existed in and reflected its contemporary context.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
- Keyword
- DOI
- Resource type
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Note
- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Verkerk, Dorothy
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Extent
- 102
Relations
- Parents:
This work has no parents.