16th Century proto-Comic-Book-illustrator

Panel from an alterpiece showing the Shooting of the Bull on Mount Gargano and the Episcopal Procession to Mount Gargano, c.1515, Palaquinos Master, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

First of all, good image of stocking seams. Second, with that heavy black outline, doesn’t it look like proto-comic-book art? He was probably ridiculed for it at the time, but now he’d be a famous graphic novel artist.

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