Cutting from a gradual
A cutting from a gradual, a liturgical choir book, painted around 1450 by the Master of the Murano Gradual, likely for a monastic or church choir and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The single picture shows a bearded saint in dark robes and red mantle holding a compass and pen beside a lion, painted in rich blues, reds and gold leaf that a designer could draw on for devotional or heraldic palettes and for framing a figure with a halo and animal companion.
