Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem, cutting
A small painted cutting from a mid-fifteenth-century Italian manuscript, made around 1450 by the Miniatore di Niccolò V and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The image shows Christ on a donkey entering Jerusalem, with a crowd of gold-haloed figures in red, blue and orange robes. A designer could draw on its flat gold grounds, saturated ultramarine sky, and crowded gesturing groups arranged across a shallow frame.
