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The Paris Psalter is a sumptuously illuminated Bbyzantine manuscript, containing the 150 Psalms of David, translated by Hebrew into demotic Greek, and 14 full-page miniatures. A key work of art of the Macedonian Renaissance, characterized by the turn anew to classicism in artistic expression during the reign of the Macedonian Dynasty, the influence of antiquity and classical art is especially obvious in the miniatures illuminating the psalter, dating it sometime during the 10th century. Its quality leads us to safely conclude that it was produced in Constantinople, maybe even in the imperial scriptoria.

David Composing the Hymns and The Prophet Isaiah at Prayer

MWW Artwork of the Day (4/20/22) Byzantium (c. 350-1453 CE) Paris Psalter: The Sickness & Recovery of Ezekial (c. 900 CE) Illuminated manuscript Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

The "Paris Psalter" is a Byzantine illuminated manuscript containing 449 folios and 14 full-page miniatures "in a grand, almost classical style", as the Encyclopædia Britannica put it. Together with Basil I's "Homilies of St. Gregory Nazianzus," the "Paris Psalter" is considered a key monument of the so-called Macedonian Renaissance in Byzantine art. This and other miniatures are so Hellenistic in execution and so unlike the received notion of what medieval art in general and Byzantine art in particular should look like, that most 19th-century authorities dated the manuscript to the time of Justinian.

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