Garden

Most twentieth-century scholars have reconstructed Pacino di Bonaguida's career based on his only known signed painting: an altarpiece in the Accademia Gallery in Florence. After examining many paintings, one scholar in the 1930s rescued Pacino from obscurity; based on close similarities in style, he attributed many paintings to Pacino.

Pacino spent his entire career in Florence, where, in addition to altarpieces, he painted miniatures and decorations for illuminated manuscripts. He is now considered the inventor of miniaturism, a style distinguished by a clear organization of the painting surface into multiple small-scale scenes. Today we present one of his miniatures depicting a garden or flowery field from Address to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples from the Town of Prato in Tuscany. Lovely isn't it?

P.S. Did you know medieval manuscripts were full of unusual and often gruesome depictions? Some of them involving... killer rabbits.