Book of Hours
A Book of Hours made around 1440 in France by the Bedford Master, a Parisian manuscript painter, for private devotional use by a lay patron, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The four pictures are framed miniatures set in dense gold-dotted vine borders with flowers, showing scenes like the Annunciation, a presentation at the temple, and an evangelist writing, all in saturated blue, red and gold; a designer could borrow the tight pattern-and-picture framing and the jewel-toned palette.
