1434
parchment
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Initial D with David is a 1434 by Master of the Cypresses, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This tiny book page shows David kneeling with Goliath’s giant sword in one hand. His red robe glows against a flat gold background. The artist loved cypress trees—you see one behind David like a skinny green flame. Miniatures this small were for private prayer books. Artists mixed egg yolk with paint so colors stayed bright for centuries. This one still shines after six hundred years. Look for a bigger example at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
The Master of the Cypresses is a notname invented by the art historian Diego Angulo Íñiguez in 1928 for a painter and manuscript illuminator working in Seville around the years 1420–1440.
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