Illuminated manuscripts in classical and mediaeval times, their art and their technique (1892)
Middleton, J. H. (John Henry), 1846-1896 · Cambridge, University press · leaf 215
CHAP. XII.] THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY. 1 87 Vasari, in his life of Don Lorenzo Monaco1, mentions a Monastic Camaldolese monk of the Monastery of Santa Maria degli PainU Angeli near Florence, who, about the year 1350, wrote and … Fig. 48. Miniature of St George and the Dragon from a Missal, illuminated about 1330 to 1340 by a painter of the school of Giotto. illuminated a number of magnificent choir-books for his Don monastery, which were very highly valued ; so much so that P‘!vest'°- after the death of the monk, whose…
Illumination of books and manuscripts · Manuscripts
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