1434
vellum
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Initial N (?) with David in Prayer is a 1434 by Master of the Cypresses, a Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a man in a red robe kneeling in prayer. He’s holding a book open in front of him, and a small dog sits at his feet. The background has a checkerboard floor and a window with a view of a garden. The edges of the image are decorated with gold and blue swirls. The man’s face looks serious, and the colors are bright but flat. The artist used simple shapes and bold outlines, which was common for book illustrations back then. If you like this style, look up Master of the Cypresses next.
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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