Saint Margaret

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Saint Margaret

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Lieven van Lathem

Flemish Illuminator · 1430–1493

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One of the most successful illuminators in Flanders, Lieven van Lathem worked for powerful patrons including the dukes of Burgundy, Philip the Good, and Charles the Bold. A member of the painter's guilds in Ghent and Antwerp, van Lathem collaborated with some of the most talented Flemish illuminators of the time, including the Master of Mary of Burgundy and Nicolas Spierinc *.* Influenced by the N

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According to medieval legend, Saint Margaret was an early Christian convert who was tortured and put in jail when she refused to renounce her Christian beliefs. While in jail, she prayed to God to show her the enemy who was fighting her, and a great dragon appeared and swallowed her whole. While inside the beast, Margaret made the sign of the cross, at which point the dragon's belly burst open and she emerged unscathed. This image of Margaret rising unharmed from the belly of a dragon accompanies the suffrage of Saint Margaret. A golden cross appears above Margaret's clasped hands, a symbol of her faith and a physical representation of the sign she made while inside the dragon. Saint Margaret was a popular saint in the Middle Ages, often invoked by women in childbirth. According to her legend, just before her death by beheading, she prayed that any woman faced with a difficult labor who invoked her aid would give birth to a healthy child, just as she herself was safely delivered from the belly of the dragon.

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Artist/Maker
Lieven van Lathem
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103RY1
Date
1469
Medium
Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
Culture
Flemish
Object Type
Folio

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0269d438-530d-45f0-bb95-d2c7f4dddd7d
Object Type
Folio
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Creator
Lieven van Lathem
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Culture
Flemish
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Medium
Tempera colors, gold leaf, gold paint, silver paint, and ink
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Department
Manuscripts
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 37, fol. 49v
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Date
1469
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Begin Year
1469
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1469
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