Cutting from an Antiphonal
A cutting from a fifteenth-century choir book, an antiphonal, painted by Bartolomeo Rigossi da Gallarate in 1465 for liturgical use in church services. The picture shows a painted scene of the resurrected Christ standing at right in a loose white cloth while three kneeling and standing figures in red, white and green robes react with open hands and bowed heads against a pale blue hilly landscape. A designer could take its rich gold-free tempera palette, dense red and green contrasts, and the flowing drapery lines as a model for medieval-style decorative work.
