Leaf from a Book of Hours:
Initial H (opening, Hours of the Cross),
about 1470-80
Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection CMA 1999.134
[Cat. no. 56]
Dutch manuscripts produced between about 1450 and 1500 are difficult to localize. Many shared or exchanged characteristics can be found, particularly in terms of page layout, border decoration, and initial design. The borders of this leaf are embellished with brightly colored flowers (columbines) and acanthus leaves infilled with gold disks, tiny green leaves, and little black dots. Though different in palette, these elements closely resemble borders and initials produced by a group of artists associated with the Zwolle Bible now in the University Library in Utrecht. This leaf is painted in an associated style by an artist who must have been familiar with the Zwolle group.
Alexander Bening (Flanders, Ghent, about 1444-1519)
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<P>Leaf from a Book of Hours:</p><p>Initial H (opening, Hours of the Cross), </p><p>about 1470-80</p><p>Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum</p><p>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection CMA 1999.134 </p><p>[Cat. no. 56]</p><p>Dutch manuscripts produced between about 1450 and 1500 are difficult to localize. Many shared or exchanged characteristics can be found, particularly in terms of page layout, border decoration, and initial design. The borders of this leaf are embellished with brightly colored flowers (columbines) and acanthus leaves infilled with gold disks, tiny green leaves, and little black dots. Though different in palette, these elements closely resemble borders and initials produced by a group of artists associated with the Zwolle Bible now in the University Library in Utrecht. This leaf is painted in an associated style by an artist who must have been familiar with the Zwolle group.</p><p>Alexander Bening (Flanders, Ghent, about 1444-1519)</p>
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