Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Detail of folio 304r, with Jonah and the Whale, from the Cervera Bible, illuminated by Joseph the Frenchman, Spain, 1299–1300. Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon (BNP, IL.72) Detail of folio 147r (left) and folio 318v (right) http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/features/2012/lisbon-hebrew-bible http://www.antiquesandauctionnews.net/Article+Display/Lisbon%60s+Hebrew+Bible+-+Medieval+Jewish+Art+In+Context/

Detail of folio 304r, with Jonah and the Whale, from the Cervera Bible, illuminated by Joseph the Frenchman, Spain, 1299–1300. Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment. Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Lisbon (BNP, IL.72)

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Detail of folio 147r (left) and folio 318v (right)

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/now-at-the-met/features/2012/lisbon-hebrew-bible

http://www.antiquesandauctionnews.net/Article+Display/Lisbon%60s+Hebrew+Bible+-+Medieval+Jewish+Art+In+Context/


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    I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jonah swallowed so… viscerally before. Ouch.
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    What an interesting ship! I wonder how realistic a rendering it is? (It looks like something I would draw… .)
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