The Three Maries at the Tomb with the Angel of the Resurrection, and Isaac Sending Esau Out to Hunt
Medium
eight-leaf fragment from an antiphonary on vellum with two miniatures in tempera
Dimensions
book: 56.4 × 39.3 × 1.1 cm (22 3/16 × 15 1/2 × 7/16 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
Accession Number
2009.1.1.1-16
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Master of Imola, and Italian 13th Century
The Master of Imola was an anonymous Italian illuminator active in Imola, in the Emilia-Romagna region, from around 1265 to 1280. Details of his early life and training are not well documented, as is common for many 13th-century manuscript artists whose personal identities have not survived. He is known by this conventional name due to his close association with commissions in and around Imola, an...