Leaf from a Gospel book
A leaf from an illuminated gospel book, probably of the fifteenth century, made by an unknown painter and now held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. The picture shows a haloed figure seated on a green ground beneath a patterned gold lattice panel and red arched frame, with its edges worn and foxed. A designer could take the flat, dense pattern work and the limited earthy palette of red, green and ochre as a model for layered ornamental borders.
