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Initial S from a Gradual: St. Augustine
Initial S from a Gradual: St. 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.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1954.257
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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.
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