Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine

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Initial S from a Gradual: Saint Augustine

Master of the Murano Gradual

Date: c. 1420
Medium: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
Culture: Italy, Venice
Department: Medieval Art
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art

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.

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