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Barlaam und Josaphat

Production of Artwork · 1469 · 132 pictures

Barlaam und Josaphat is a hand-painted German manuscript of the Christian legend of a prince and a hermit, produced around 1469 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its pictures are small, colored, framed miniatures in red, green and ochre with simple figures and architectural borders, offering a designer examples of late medieval manuscript composition and layered decorative framing.

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