Initial A with God adored by angels The initial A in this cutting was painted in Italy, probably in the fifteenth or sixteenth centuries. The scene within the initial, however, is by an artist working in the nineteenth-century. Medieval art became fashionable in the Victorian period, and the demand for illuminated manuscripts tempted many artists to make forgeries to sell to unwitting buyers. This image shows the reverse of a cutting from a medieval choir book with an historiated initial painted in the nineteenth century.
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