
Cleveland Museum of Art
Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain: Fol. 32r
Master of the First Prayerbook of MaximillianLinkedCulture matchlcp-08742b5ffdd3
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- Flanders, Ghent and Bruges, late 15th century
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 139298
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
A great lover of Flemish art, Queen Isabella treasured her many devotional books. This deluxe manuscript was created for her private devotions by highly organized and distinctly talented manuscript painters active in Ghent and Bruges. The Ghent-Bruges school represents the culmination of Flemish book painting, whose main features were the use of rich colors, illusionistic effects, a love of landscape, and a strong sense of visual narrative. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for their border decoration featuring a rich variety of realistically painted flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves, birds, and butterflies.
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- c.1500-: Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500) | Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile | Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934) | 1934-1954: Baron Maurice de Rothschild | 1954-1963: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 1963-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
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