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Collection Online as of April 20, 2024
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Saint James the Greater
c. 1440–1450
(Belgian)
Leaf: 14.9 x 11.2 cm (5 7/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
Location: not on view
Description
The illuminator of this leaf is one of a group of painters and workshops collectively known as the "Masters of the Gold Scrolls," named after the gold tendrils that frequently, but not always, occupy the backgrounds of the group’s compositions. The present miniature is by one of the Gold Scrolls’ finest hands. From the 1440s onward, the gold scroll motif begins to disappear in their miniatures and replaced, as here, by landscape. Saint James the Greater is shown as a Christian pilgrim. The miniature would have appeared in the Suffrages of the book of hours.- [Edward Lubin, New York]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
- Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned: p. 47; Reproduced: p. 48, cat. no. 45 archive.org
- The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014).Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014.The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 45, illus. p. 48.
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.59