![Initial D[omine] from a Choral Book: King Solomon, by Guglielmo Giraldi del Magri [or del Magro], c. 1470–1480](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1951.548/1951.548_web.jpg)
Initial D[omine] from a Choral Book: King Solomon
attributed to Guglielmo Giraldi del Magri [or del Magro] (Italian)
c. 1470–1480
- Medium
- ink, tempera and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 x 14 cm (6 11/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Ferrara, 15th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The initial D takes the form of the Temple at Jerusalem, built by King Solomon, who occupies the initial's interior space. The remaining letters omine (the Latin word for Lord), reside beneath the D against grounds of alternating colors. This once was part of a group of Old Testament portraits decorating a choral book. Giraldi held a privileged reputation as an illuminator for the court of Borso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (died 1471).
