Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are sources for European Christian imagery beyond the canonical Bible?
Hints
- Three were available to painters; one postdates the paintings by centuries.
- A fifteenth-century painter could not consult nineteenth-century scholarship.
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- B. Devotional literature such as the Meditationes vitae Christi
- C. The Golden Legend
- D. The Apocrypha and infancy gospels
Why
The fourth is anachronistic by centuries, and naming it is worth the trouble because the temptation runs the other way: it is easy to check a painting against what we now believe the text says, rather than against what its painter had available to read.
Practise Judeo-Christian Sources I: Scripture and Typology
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