Border with a Scene from the Life of Gideon

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Border with a Scene from the Life of Gideon

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Simon Bening

Flemish Illuminator · 1483–1561

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One of the most celebrated painters of Flanders in the 1500s, Simon Bening was hailed by Portuguese art critic Francisco da Hollanda as the greatest master of illumination in all of Europe. In addition to producing books for powerful aristocrats such as Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, Bening worked for a group of international royal patrons including Emperor Charles V and Don Fernando, the Infan

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Date
about 1525–1530
Medium
Tempera colors, gold paint, and gold leaf
Culture
Flemish
Department
Manuscripts
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
87e3241d-a8ba-4470-94e6-38d35387b904

The Old Testament judge and warrior Gideon kneels in the bottom corner, watching as the fleece he has laid on the ground receives rain from an angel. In order to determine by sign whether or not God would deliver Israel, Gideon had proposed to God that the wetting of the fleece while the ground around it remained dry would signify God's promise of action. Christians came to see this event as a prefiguration of the Annunciation, when God again delivered humanity, this time through Christ. This page faces the manuscript's Annunciation miniature, and its text focuses on the subject of God's redemption of humanity. In both images, Simon Bening used golden rays of light to represent divine intervention.

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