Last Judgment in an Initial C, Lorenzo Monaco, ca. 1406–7
Last Judgment in an Initial C, ca. 1406–7, Tempera and gold on parchment, 12 5/16 x 10 3/8 in. ( x ), Manuscripts and Illuminations, Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?)), This miniature was excised from an antiphonary (one of the principal choir books of Catholic devotion) painted by Lorenzo Monaco for the Camaldolese convent of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Florence. The initial C introduces one of the responses for the celebration of the Office of the Dead: 'Credo quod redemptor meus vivit, et novissimo die terra resurrecturus sum, et in carnee mea videbo Deum, Salvatorem meum' (I believe that my Redeemer lives, and that on the last day I shall rise from the earth and in my flesh I shall see God, my Savior
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