Katherine Hours
A Book of Hours made around 1480 by the French illuminator Jean Bourdichon, held by the J. Paul Getty Museum, written for private devotion. Its pages frame small scenes of sacred events, such as the Nativity and the Visitation, inside dense borders of acanthus scrolls, flowers, and birds on gold grounds, with rich blue and red garments. A designer could draw on the layered ornament, the balance of miniature image and decorative frame, and the saturated palette of blues, reds and gold.
