Leaf from a Book of Hours
A leaf from a late medieval devotional manuscript, painted around 1500 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, probably made for a lay patron who prayed from it. The painted page shows a robed figure in blue and gold standing beside a kneeling man at a lectern under a golden architectural frame, with a small scene of a woman bathing in water beneath a walled city in the lower panel. A designer could take its blue and gold palette, the banded gold border with blue ornament, and the framing of two stacked scenes within an illuminated page.
