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Saint in a Historiated Initial from a Choirbook
Cristoforo Cortese (Cristoforo Cortese (Italian, flourished c. 1399-before 1445))
c. 1430
- Medium
- Manuscript cutting in tempera and gold leaf, with incising, and with gothica textualis inscriptions in black ink, ruled in red ink, on parchment
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 9.8 × 6.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Italy
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
