The Gaibana Master and his Associate
Artists' Materials
The Gaibana Master’s use of a delicate violet colour, obtained with a mixture of vermilion and ultramarine blue, is unique in the manuscript. He also mixed lead white with ultramarine blue to achieve the light grey hue on the border of St John the Baptist’s mantle. His Associate was the only artist to employ azurite for grey-blue areas and in some green mixtures.
Christ surrounded by eleven Apostles
This depiction of Christ announcing his pending death to the Apostles is the only full-page miniature painted by the Gaibana Master’s Associate. It shows the artist’s intimate familiarity with his master’s iconographic compositions, as it resembles the miniature for the Common of Saints painted by the Gaibana Master in the Paduan Epistolary.