Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)

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Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Barbara (2 of 2 Excised Leaves)

Master of Jacques de LuxembourgLinkedCulture matchlcp-981bf150b160

Date
c. 1465
Medium
ink, tempera and gold on vellum
Culture
France, Eastern France or Paris (?), 15th century
Department
Medieval Art
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
169748

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Saint Barbara was popular in France, known for being imprisoned in a tower by her father and living as a hermit. In piety, she asked builders to construct her three windows to symbolize the Holy Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Her father, enraged by her conversion to Christianity, killed her, after which he was struck by lightning from heaven. She was seen as a protector from sudden death, a common medieval concern, and the patron saint of architects and builders. The text on this leaf is in French, as opposed to Latin. The owner of a book of hours was intended to stop eight times a day and read the appropriate devotional text.

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Credit line
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
Provenance
-1894: Damascène Morgand, Paris, France, sold to Thomas Yates Thompson | 1894-1904: Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), London, England | May 3, 1904: (Sale: Sotheby's, London, May 3, 1904, no. 31) | [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, Ohio], sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn | -2011: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, Fl, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2011-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

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