Manuscript Illumination with Four Saints in an Initial O, from a Choir Book

Master of the Murano Gradual

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The large white headdresses known as miters identify the two elderly figures in the foreground as abbots, since they wear the white robes of the Camaldolese order. Their colorful copes are trimmed with a pattern inspired by Arabic lettering.

Manuscript Illumination with Four Saints in an Initial O, from a Choir Book, Master of the Murano Gradual (active ca. 1430–60), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian

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Manuscript Illumination with Four Saints in an Initial O, from a Choir Book, Master of the Murano Gradual (active ca. 1430–60), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian
Manuscript Illumination with Four Saints in an Initial O, from a Choir Book, Master of the Murano Gradual (active ca. 1430–60), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian

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