Manuscript Illumination with the Holy Women at the Tomb in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary

Girolamo dai Libri Italian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 306

Active as a painter and an illuminator, Girolamo dai Libri came from a family of illuminators, as his name (Jerome of the Books) suggests. He sometimes collaborated with his father, Francesco. Here, he effectively distinguished between the Easter scene as sacred theater and the letter as a stage set by painting a blue theatrical mask in the middle of the A.

Manuscript Illumination with the Holy Women at the Tomb in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary, Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Verona 1474–1555 Verona), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian

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Manuscript Illumination with the Holy Women at the Tomb in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary, Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Verona 1474–1555 Verona), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian
Manuscript Illumination with the Holy Women at the Tomb in an Initial A, from an Antiphonary, Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, Verona 1474–1555 Verona), Tempera, gold, and ink on parchment, Italian

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