The 71 Artworks of media Parchment and containing the word gilles hardouyn, parchment, 1500

When printed books first began to supplant manuscripts, their makers strove to make the product look like books written by hand. In this book of hours, woodcut printed illustrations were 'illuminated' with color, like coloring books that were filled in with hand painting. This book was made by the b...

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Schattenspielfigur aus Kamelleder. Die auffallend große, durchbrochen gearbeitete Figur stellt einen Reiter mit einem Jagdfalken dar. Die Figur ist aus zahlreichen kleineren und größeren Lederstücken zusammengenäht und teilweise so verbunden, dass Einzelteile separat bewegt werden konnten wie Oberkö...

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This diminutive Book of Hours is one of Simon Bening’s prayerful jewels, intended for use at regular intervals throughout the twenty-four- hour day (ideally every three hours). It was a reminder of the omnipresence of God, meant to be attached to its owner, or stored with precious possessions. There...

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This leaf may have been part of a grand Breviary, a type of book containing the psalms, scripture readings, antiphons, and prayers for each day of the liturgical year. Such large-format Breviaries were produced in Flanders in the early sixteenth century. The style of this miniature resembles that of...

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This leaf, the first page of Saint Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews written in Greek, is decorated with a handsome rectangular headpiece and a letter topped with a portrait bust of the author. The leaf was originally part of a Praxapostolos, a text used only for the celebration of the Eucharist, which ...

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The Assumption of the Virgin, celebrated on August 15, is an especially important holiday in Siena. Niccolò di ser Sozzo, one of the city's renowned illuminators of the fourteenth century, painted it numerous times. The Virgin Mary, in a diaphanous gown, rises effortlessly as choirs of angels guide ...

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This manuscript on colored and golden parchment was created by Mateo Prunes, as stated on the parchment itself, in an inscription under an image of the Virgin that reads: /

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As part of a daily cycle of prayers in honor of the Virgin, Matins is habitually illustrated by an Annunciation, with the angel Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the infant Jesus. Inhabitual, however, are details of this composition by Jean Bourdichon of Tours, the foremost illuminator t...

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Were it not for the halos, one might think that this scene, painted by a monk celebrated as a painter, illuminator, and successful administrator of Santa Maria degli Angeli, represents morning in a wealthy home in Florence. Surrounded by bright silks on the bed and walls of her chamber, Saint Anne g...

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