Gualenghi-d'Este Hours
The Gualenghi-d'Este Hours is a illuminated book of hours made in Ferrara around 1469 for private devotional use by a wealthy patron, as the Getty Museum's record indicates. Its pictures are gilded, jewel-coloured miniatures with saints, angels and the Annunciation set in framed panels within decorated borders, showing how gold leaf, bright ultramarine and flowing acanthus-like scrollwork can structure a page.
