Miniature from a Prayer Book or a Book of Hours
A manuscript miniature from a prayer book or Book of Hours, painted by Simon Marmion around 1475 for private devotional use, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows the Virgin in a blue mantle holding the Christ child, with a kneeling donor in the foreground with a crozier and a walled town with a spire behind a green landscape. A designer might take its layered gold-edged blue robes, soft modelling of flesh, and pale landscape recession as a model for devotional or heraldic colour palettes.
