This is a page from a book, with two tall columns of black text following a rectangular scene at the upper left corner, which shows a crowd under a balcony. Painted on vellum, the page also has a deocrated capital P and D, and a few other markings in cobalt blue and scarlet red. All the people in the scenes have pale skin. Most of the women wear crowns over long, braided hair. Their long dresses and the men's tunics and robes are painted in shades of azure or sky blue, crimson red, or pine green. In the rectangular illustration at the top left, a crowd of more than a dozen people gather…
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The Marriage; the Kiss of the Bride (initial P); the Bride Abandoned (initial D)

Niccolò di Giacomo da Bologna (Bolognese, active 1348/1399)

1350s

Medium
miniature on vellum
Classification
Drawing
Dimensions
overall: 44.5 x 27.3 cm (17 1/2 x 10 3/4 in.)
Culture
Bolognese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
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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