Weltchronik
The Weltchronik is a German illuminated world chronicle, a history of the world in painted pages with rhymed German verse set beneath the scenes, produced around 1400 for a lay reader, now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its painted pages show crowded battles, processions, and biblical episodes in flat bright colour against gold-tinted grounds, with figures in pointed hats, armour, and long robes; a designer could borrow the tight narrative staging, the layering of several episodes within one framed panel, and the saturated pink, blue, and red palette set against muted green hills.
