This is a painting of an illuminated manuscript page with musical notation and a decorative initial in the style of medieval manuscript illumination. The page includes Gregorian chant notation with block neumes on a staff with red lines, accompanied by Latin text in black and red ink. There is a large decorated initial 'Q' in red and blue in the lower left corner, filled with scrollwork and a miniature scene of two figures, one with a halo. The page is embellished with decorative elements such as elongated tendrils, and the vellum has an aged appearance.

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Isaac Sending Esau Out to Hunt

Master of Imola (Italian, active 1265 - 1280)

Italian 13th Century

c. 1275

Medium: miniature in tempera on leaf 7 (verso) of an antiphonal fragment on vellum
Classification: Drawing
Dimensions: sheet: 55.25 × 36.83 cm (21 3/4 × 14 1/2 in.)
Culture: Italian
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line: Gift of Mr. Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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