New Testament
A twelfth-century illuminated New Testament held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, made by an unknown scribe and painter, probably for a religious community reading the Latin scriptures. The pictures show gold and coloured initials with interlaced foliage, a crucifixion scene framed by roundels of evangelists and saints, and a nude figure curled inside a large letter, offering designers medieval patterning, gilt-and-blue colour pairings, and compact frame layouts.
