Prayer Book of Charles the Bold
A Flemish illuminated prayer book, made around 1469 for the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its pages show arched miniatures of Gospel and saint scenes set in gilded borders of acanthus scrolls, flowers, birds and small grotesques painted in blue, red and gold. A designer could take from them the layered frame-within-frame compositions, the dense ornamental scrollwork, and the palette of jewel-like colour against gold.
