The Crucifixion, cutting from a missal
A cutting from a liturgical missal, painted around 1260 by the Master of Saint Francis, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The gold-ground panel shows Christ on the cross flanked by the Virgin, a saint and a Franciscan friar, with a painted inscription band below. Its gold leaf, saturated blues and reds, and flat drapery folds offer a model for devotional halo and border ornament, and for limited-palette medieval religious colour.
