Miniature from The Miracles of Our Lady
A manuscript miniature from about 1460, likely made in Flanders or northern France for a patron who read devotional collections of Marian miracle stories, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a townscape with Gothic architecture, kneeling figures in long gowns and tall headdresses on a cobbled square, and a cloistered woman at a window above a doorway, all in grisaille with restrained gold rules and a red-and-blue initial band. A designer might take from it the layered architectural perspective, the muted grey palette set against small touches of colour, and the way a framed text panel sits above the scene.
