Leaf from an antiphonal
A leaf from an antiphonal, a large choir book of sung liturgy, made by Franco dei Russi in 1455 for church use and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture is a painted historiated initial with flat, saturated red, green and blue fields, gold edging and dense foliage borders. A designer could take its bold colour blocking, decorative vine framing and compact figure-in-landscape staging.
