The recto is worn from devotional engagement, damaged through kissing and rubbing, perhaps.
Featured on PDR in the essay Precedents of the Unprecedented: Black Squares Before Malevich
Described by Kasimir Malevich as the “first step of pure creation in art”, his *Black Square* of 1915 has been cast as a total break from all that came before it. Yet searching across more than five hundred years of images related to mourning, humour, politics, and philosophy, Andrew Spira uncovers a slew of unlikely foreshadows to Malevich's radical abstraction.
Also appearing in the essay…
Black pages with red drops of blood, signifying the wounds of Christ, from a psalter and rosary of the Virgin.
Date
ca. 1500
From
BL Egerton 1821
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