Cutting from a choir book
A cutting from a choir book, painted about 1450 by the Olivetan Master and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, for liturgical use in a religious house. Four bearded apostles with gold haloes stand close together with hands pressed in prayer inside a large initial letter, set against a blue ground with a green tree of golden fruit above. Designers can take the layered gold leaf, the decorated letter frame with its flower motifs, and the tight blue-green-red palette of the figures.
