Historiated Initial (D) Excised from a Choir Book: Two Martyr Saints

Historiated Initial (D) Excised from a Choir Book: Two Martyr Saints

c. 1500–1510 · Girolamo dai Libri (Italian, 1474–1555)

ink, tempera, and gold on parchment

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