Manuscript Illumination with Scenes of Easter in an Initial A, from an

A gold-haloed angel sits on a stone tomb while three women approach from the left, and a kneeling woman in red reaches toward a tree at the lower right. Tempera, ink and gold leaf on parchment, the figures set against a rust-orange ground inside a deep blue initial.

Look closer: A small golden-haloed head peeks from the lower edge beside the kneeling figure, partly hidden by the initial's frame.

Artist

Nerius

Date

ca. 1320

Medium

Tempera, ink, and gold on parchment

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3640 × 3660 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1912