Leaf from Commentarius in Apocalypsim
A leaf from a twelfth-century illuminated Apocalypse commentary, made in Europe around 1220 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably for a monastic or clerical reader. The picture shows a starry blue sky with a haloed Lamb at top, crowned figures with swords and shields, and a figure beheaded before a red band where bodies lie; the flat gold, saturated blue and red fields, and bold outlines give a designer a strong model for medieval manuscript-style graphics.
