1434
vellum
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Initial L with Old Testament Prophet is a 1434 by Master of the Cypresses, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
The painting is called Initial L with Old Testament Prophet. It was made in the 1430s by the Master of the Cypresses. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, has this miniature on vellum, which is a small painting on animal skin. This artist worked during the Renaissance, a time of new ideas in art and science. To learn more about this style, look into the movement: Renaissance.
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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