Leaf from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese
A leaf from a laudario, a choir book of sung devotional texts, made around 1340 in Italy by the Master of the Dominican Effigies and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows Pentecost with the Virgin and apostles seated under a Gothic canopy beneath a gold-and-blue sky, framed by painted vine borders, with musical staff lines and the words SPIRITO SANTO GLORIA beneath. A designer could take the gilded tracery, saturated blues and reds, and the framed arrangement of text above a scene.
