Cutting from a choir book

Creator

Italian Illuminator · 1349–1403

Niccolò da Bologna was one of the most important and prolific manuscript illuminators of the fourteenth century in Bologna, a university town famous for its law faculty. He is known especially for his expressive figures and crowded, action-filled narrative scenes. The first signed works by Niccolò are all copies of Gratian's *Decretals,* one of the standard works of canon law. He and his workshop