Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from an Antiphonary with Historiated Initial (H) with The Nativity (recto)
- Date
- early 1300s
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on parchment
- Culture
- Italy, Tuscany
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130551
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This enormous initial h illustrates the beginning of the text of the first matins response for Christmas Day: Hodie nobis celorum rex (“On this day the King of Heaven”). The initial is appropriately decorated with a scene of Christ’s nativity. Along with other painters and illuminators, Neri da Rimini established the school of Rimini, characterized by a painting style owing much to the work of Giotto, who he perhaps encountered in Padua.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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