Leaf from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
A leaf from a devotional songbook, the laudario of Sant'Agnese, painted by Pacino di Bonaguida around 1340 in Florence for lay confraternity singers. The single miniature shows Christ in a mandorla above a gold ground, flanked by angels and a crowd of haloed figures in blue, pink and yellow robes. A designer could take its flat gold field, its framed gilt border and its rhythmic arrangement of robed figures as a model for sacred ornament.
