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Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine
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Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine

Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian), artist · c. 1420 · ink, tempera, and gold on vellum

From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

This initial belongs to a large group of excised miniatures of saints once part of a gradual used in a Venetian Camaldolese monastery, probably San Michele on the island of Murano. The artist has shown a fondness here for unusual decorative features such as the band of pseudo-Arabic writing along the sleeve and the feathery-white scrolling leaves resembling shells.

Cleveland Museum of Art’s own description
Credit lineInitial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine, c. 1420. Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian). Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; sheet: 16.8 x 14.9 cm (6 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1954.257
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