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Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine
Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian)
c. 1420
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 16.8 x 14.9 cm (6 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Italy, Venice
- 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
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
