Cleveland Museum of Art
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation, Nativity and Two Prophets
Master of Riccardiana 231LinkedCulture matchlcp-90050d46053d
- Date
- c. 1485
- Medium
- tempera and gold on parchment
- Culture
- Italy, Florence
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 130545
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This leaf came from a book of hours, a devotional book popular in the Middle Ages. They contained prayers that a devoted individual would use throughout the day. It has been estimated that 1 in 15 households owned a book of hours, although this luxurious example could only have belonged to an aristocratic household. Peacocks were often used in medieval Christian art as a symbol of the resurrection and eternal life.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- -1953: Vittorio Forti, Rome, Italy, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1953-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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