Leaf from a Gospel Book or New Testament
A Byzantine-style illuminated manuscript leaf from around 1325, probably made for a Gospel book, with its author unknown and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a bearded evangelist in a blue robe and red undergarment seated before a lectern with an open book, set against a gold leaf background within a blue painted border. A designer could take the flat gold ground, the saturated blue and vermilion palette, and the framed corner ornaments as a model for sacred or ornamental decoration.
