Leaf from a Psalter: Historiated Initial D with The Trinity
Medium
ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Dimensions
26.7 × 17.5 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
Accession Number
1999.125
Rights
Public Domain
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About this artwork
Although English, the design of this psalter page follows the fashion of French book illumination. In particular, the white flesh tones, elegant wavy coiffures, and elongated fingers of the figures relate this leaf to the Queen Mary Psalter, probably the most "Parisian" of all surviving English illuminated manuscripts of the early 1300s. The Queen Mary Psalter is named after the 16th-century English queen who appears to have once owned it. The artistic connections between France and England duri...
About the Artist
Master of the Queen Mary Psalter (English)
Simon English, born in Berlin in 1959, is a British contemporary artist who lives and works in London. His early years were marked by personal loss, as his father, a British soldier, died in a car accident when English was just two and a half years old, after which the family relocated to Dorset. Drawing became an escape from a young age, and he pursued formal training with a foundation course at ...