Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto)

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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Sts. Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret (recto)

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Date
c. 1415
Medium
ink, tempera, silver, and gold on vellum
Culture
France, Paris
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
171398

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This leaf’s illumination includes Saints Geneviève, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret, all early church saints, virgins, and martyrs. During the 1400s and 1500s, the popularity of female saints increased, as did the literacy rate among women, thanks to books of hours. Saint Genevieve is shown with a candle the devil is trying to extinguish while an angel relights it. Saint Catherine, in the center, holds a palm branch and a sword, with which she was executed. Saint Margaret stands on the dragon from whom she emerged clean and unharmed when the cross she carried irritated the dragon’s innards.

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Credit line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
Provenance
[Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn] | -2014: Jeanne Miles Blackburn | 2014-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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