细节
DEATH AS A SKELETON. Single leaf from a Book of Hours in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Florence? or Naples? third quarter of the 15th century]
125 x 93mm. Large historiated initial 'D', ochre and pink with foliate decoration, containing a figure of a skeleton on blue ground. The beginning of the Office of the Dead, text in a round gothic in black and red, 13 lines on verso within a wide border of coloured flowers and fine gold rinceaux, containing a putto attacking a dragon with a spear and a wild duck.
[Florence? or Naples? third quarter of the 15th century]
125 x 93mm. Large historiated initial 'D', ochre and pink with foliate decoration, containing a figure of a skeleton on blue ground. The beginning of the Office of the Dead, text in a round gothic in black and red, 13 lines on verso within a wide border of coloured flowers and fine gold rinceaux, containing a putto attacking a dragon with a spear and a wild duck.