Fragment with Christ and John the Evangelist from the Gradual of St. Katharinental (Thurgau)
A leaf of a Swiss liturgical choir book, the Gradual of the Dominican convent of St. Katharinental in Thurgau, painted around 1312 for the nuns who sang the Mass. The picture shows a gilded ground with a haloed Virgin and Child in a red-lined frame, and a vine scroll border with a small kneeling figure, offering a designer medieval gold leaf, flat saturated colour and scrolling foliage.
