Cutting from an antiphonal
A cutting from a choir book of chant, made around 1430 by Stefano da Verona and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for liturgical use in a church or convent. The picture shows the Virgin Mary at the centre of a crowd of haloed apostles gathered beneath the Holy Spirit as a dove with rays, set in a gilded and foliate border; a designer could take from it the gold leaf, jewel-toned blue and red robes, and the way gold halos and ornamented borders frame a crowded scene.
