Nativity in an Initial H
Zanino di Pietro
1430–1440
- Medium
- Brush and gouache, heightened with gum arabic, gold leaf, and gold paint, over brush and black ink, on vellum
- Dimensions
- 27.7 × 22.9 cm (10 15/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- gouache
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
gold paintgumdrawings (visual works)paintgum arabicinkMythologymanuscriptprints and drawingsgouachegold leafmetallic paintprints and drawingcolored inkinorganic materialblack inkChristian subjectswatercolororganic materialnativity scenesmedievalcoating (material)leaf (metal)water-base paintmetal