GIROLAMO DA CREMONA
(active 1451-1483)

Missal

1475-76
Manuscript, 159 x 114 mm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The picture shows a cutting from a Missal for Lucrezia Tornabuoni, the widow of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici. It is a miniature (tempera and gold leaf on parchment, laid down on wood) depicting the Descent from the Cross.