Three leaves from an antiphonal
An illuminated antiphonal, a choir book of sung liturgy, painted around 1405 by the Master of the Golden Bull, a Bohemian-associated illuminator, and held today at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a curly-haired young figure in a vivid red robe with gold cuffs, one hand pressed to the chest, against a black ground patterned with gold foliage, so a designer could take the saturated red-and-gold contrast and the gilded scrollwork as a model for rich decorative framing.
