Portrait of an Old Humanist

UNKNOWN MASTER, illuminator

(15th century)

1480s
Parchment
National Széchényi Library, Budapest

The miniature is from the Codex Heroica by Philostratus illuminated by the Florentine painter Attavante degli Attavanti (1452-1517).

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