Cutting from an Antiphonal
A cutting from a choir book (antiphonal) illuminated by Bartolomeo Rigossi da Gallarate in 1465, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, made for liturgical use in church singing. The painted miniature shows an angel seated on a rock at right, with a kneeling woman in red in the foreground and draped saints standing at left against a hilly green landscape. Designers can draw on its rich jewel-toned palette, gilded halo accents, and the flat, decorative arrangement of figures and rolling hills.
