Art History I / Judeo-Christian Sources I: Scripture and Typology
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Complete the account of typology.

Typology reads an Old Testament event as a ______ of a New Testament event, which is its ______. Jonah in the fish prefigures the ______. The illustrated books that codified these pairings include the Biblia ______.

Word bank: type · antitype · Resurrection · pauperum · symbol · Crucifixion

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  1. The first pair is the technical vocabulary of the reading.
  2. Three days enclosed then emerging gives the third blank.
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Typology reads an Old Testament event as a type of a New Testament event, which is its antitype. Jonah in the fish prefigures the Resurrection. The illustrated books that codified these pairings include the Biblia pauperum.

Why

The fourth blank names one of the practical design sources behind European church decoration. The Biblia pauperum pairs each New Testament scene with its types on the same page, which is why the same pairings recur so consistently in glass and fresco across the continent.

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