Leaf from the Hours of Louis XII
A leaf from a Book of Hours painted around 1498 by Jean Bourdichon, a French court illuminator, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, made for the French royal court. Its single miniature shows a kneeling knight in gold-patterned armour before a winged archangel and three crowned saints with gold-ground robes and gilded lettering. The rich gold leaf, dense brocade patterns and jewel-toned blue and red garments offer a designer clear models for ornamental pattern, heraldic-style gilding and medieval manuscript colour.
