Displacing Byzantium, Disgracing Convention: The Manuscript Patronage of Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
Elena N. Boeck
This article compares patron imagery in two illuminated books produced for Tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria the mid-fourteenth century. Both manuscripts, a Slavonic gospel book and world history (the Chronicle Constantine Manassès), were personalized through repetitive creative interweaving his images into very fabric books. In both cases ruler was aggrandized intimate visual associations with divine luminaries manuscripts marked key transitions life. The stark contrast quality between however, has been tactfully avoided by scholars not subjected to rigorous analysis. physical evidence luxurious London Tetraevangelion modest Vatican Manasses reveals an enormous difference expenditure divergence execution. Even celebrated manuscript images, including famous frontispiece miniature, demonstrate hurried production.
Manuscripta