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accession number: 1963.256
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Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain, c. 1500. Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519), and Associates. Ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1963.256
title: Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
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creation date: c. 1500
creation date earliest: 1495
creation date latest: 1505
current location: 110B Late Gothic
creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
copyright:
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culture: Flanders, Bruges and Ghent, late 15th century
technique: ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
department: Medieval Art
collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type: Bound Volume
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CREATORS
* Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519) - artist
Alexander Bening has been presumed to be the same artist formerly know under the sobriquet, "Master of the Older Prayerbook of Maximilian I"
* Associates - artist
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measurements: Codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review (1963)
opening date: 1963-11-26T05:00:00
Year in Review (1963). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 26, 1963-January 5, 1964).
title: Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination
opening date: 1964-03-17T05:00:00
Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 16-May 17, 1964).
title: When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story
opening date: 1981-12-01T05:00:00
When Angels Bent Near the Earth to Touch Their Harps of Gold: The Christmas Story. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982).
title: Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 1467-1561
opening date: 2003-06-17T00:00:00
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, 1467-1561. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (June 17-September 7, 2003).
title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00
Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 13-June 7, 2009).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* The Medieval Garden, H.F. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, (March 20-May 1983).
The Medieval Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, (May 12, 1983-July 7, 1983).
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992).
Illuminating the Renaissance, J. Paul Getty Musuem, (June 17 - September 7, 2003).
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PROVENANCE
Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500)
date: c.1500-
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Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile
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Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934)
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Baron Maurice de Rothschild
date: 1934-1954
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(Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 1954-1963
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh
date: 1963-
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fun fact:
Isabella’s book of hours may have in its margins one of the first depictions of a daffodil in manuscript painting.
digital description:
The original owner of this exquisite book of hours was Queen Isabella of Spain, who sponsored Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyage to the Americas. Eventually this book found its way to the New World and was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1963.
wall description:
A great lover of Flemish art, Queen Isabella treasured her many devotional books. This deluxe manuscript was created for her private devotions by highly organized and distinctly talented manuscript painters active in Ghent and Bruges. The Ghent-Bruges school represents the culmination of Flemish book painting, whose main features were the use of rich colors, illusionistic effects, a love of landscape, and a strong sense of visual narrative. Manuscripts produced by this circle of artists are renowned for their border decoration featuring a rich variety of realistically painted flowers, scrolling acanthus leaves, birds, and butterflies.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Gras, Samuel, and Anne-Marie Legaré. Lumières du Nord: les manuscrits enluminés français et flamands de la Bibliothèque nationale d'Espagne. Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2021.
page number: Mentioned: p. 335; reproduced: p. [350], fig. 12.6
url:
Lee, Sherman E. "Year in Review for 1963." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 50, no. 10 (1963): 263-94.
page number: Referenced: p. 267-271
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25151974.
Wixom, William D. "Twelve Masterpieces of Medieval and Renaissance Book Illumination. A Catalogue to the Exhibition: March 17-May 17, 1964." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 3 (1964)
page number: pp. 60-63
url:
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 69
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n93
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 69
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n93
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Berthold Fricke. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970.
page number: pp. 36-7
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"Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 4 (1972)
page number: pp. 109-11
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Scillia, Diane Graybowski. Gerard David and Manuscript Illumination in the Low Countries, 1480-1509. 1975.
page number: pp. 228-32
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 78
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n98
De Winter, Patrick M. "A Book of Hours of Queen Isabel La Católica." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 10 (1981)
page number: pp. 342-427
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Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture , and Elisabeth Blair MacDougall. Medieval Gardens. Washington (D.C.): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1986.
page number: p. 180, Cat. No. 25
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Stokstad, Marilyn, and Jerry Stannard. Gardens of the Middle Ages. Lawrence: Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1983.
page number: Cat. No. 25
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Manion, Margaret M., and Vera F. Vines. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections. Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 1984.
page number: p. 153
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Società di storia della miniatura. Miniatura: studi di storia dell'illustrazione e decorazione del libro. Firenze: Alinari, 1988.
page number: pp. 123-124
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Calkins, Robert G. “Sacred Image & Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts.” Essays in Medieval Studies: Proceedings of the Illinois Medieval Association Vol. 6 (1989)
page number: pp. 1-29
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Hollander, Anne. Moving Pictures. New York: Knopf, 1989.
page number: pp. 69-70
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Levenson, Jay A. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1991.
page number: pp. 155-6, Cat. No. 34
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991.
page number: p. 12
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Pelikan, Jaroslav, and Jaroslav Pelikan. The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
page number: pp. 4-5
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Nieuwdorp, Hans M. J., and Brigitte Dekeyzer. Breviarium Mayer Van den Bergh: alle miniaturen. Gent: Ludion, 1997.
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Gibson, Walter S., and Laurinda S. Dixon. In Detail: New Studies of Northern Renaissance Art in Honor of Walter S. Gibson. [S.l.]: Brepols, 1998.
page number: pp. 57-8
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Smeyers, Maurits, and Monique Verboomen. L'Art de la miniature flamande du VIIIe au XVIe siècle. Tournai: La renaissance du livre, 1998.
page number: p. 478, no. 91
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Smeyers, Maurits. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the Mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999.
page number: p. 478
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Crucifixion. London: Phaidon, 2000.
page number: pp. 92-93
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Gnann, Achim, Heinz Widauer, Katja Gnann, and Konrad Oberhuber. Festschrift Für Konrad Oberhuber. Milano: Electa, 2000.
page number: pp. 215-233
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May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
page number: p. 30 & 117
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Kesel, Lieve de. “Almost Restored The Hours of Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 78 B 15.” Jahrbuch der Berliner (2001)
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Kren, Thomas, Scot McKendrick, and Maryan W. Ainsworth. Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. 2003.
page number: Referenced: cat. no. 105, p. 359
url:
Wixom, William. "A Glimpse at the Fountains of the Middle Ages." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 8 (2003): 6-23.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 10
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page number: p. 39, fig. 34
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page number: p. 156-7
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López Montilla, María Jesús. El libro de horas: un libro selecto de devoción privada. 2012.
page number: p. 118, fig. 25
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url:
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Fol. 197v and Fol. 198r
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url:
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