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| Title: Iconographie de l'illustration de Flavius Josèphe au temps de Jean Fouquet Secondary Title: Arbeiten zur Literatur und Geschichte des hellenistischen Judentums (ALGHJ) 12 Pages: VIII, 225, [81] of plates Type: Book Year: 1986 Abstract: "Jean Fouquet represents both the apex and the end of a long line of illustrators, usually anonymous, who have attempted to put into pictures the Jewish Antiquities and Jewish War of Flavius Josephus. The present work is the first systematic synthesis of this collection of images, which by seeking to express the essence of Josephus, all the better express the mentality of their creator and of the intellectual atmospheres in which they were conceived. For the historian - of art, of ideas and of texts - they form an incomparable collection of documents which throw light on a long evolution, beginning with the Bible and stopping with the lay humanism of the Enlightenment. It provides for a wider public, who throughout the centuries have never lost their interest in Josephus, the opportunity to become better acquainted with the driving ideas behind this oeuvre, ideas which ware reflected in its graceful images". Keywords: Reception of Josephus: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern Period Josephus, Flavius, Illustrations. Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic. Fouquet, Jean, ca. 1420-ca. 1480, Criticism and interpretation. |