id: 138885 accession number: 1963.256 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1963.256 updated: 2019-06-27 08:08:45.102000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: 110B Late Gothic creditline: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund copyright: --- 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 find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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 --- measurements: Codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 (December 1, 1981-January 17, 1982). 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 (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008); Frist Center for the Visual Arts (February 13-June 7, 2009). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., (September 17, 1991 - January 16, 1992).

The Medieval Garden, H.F. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, (March 20-May 1983); cat. no. 25, repr. f. 200r; f. 189v.

The Medieval Garden, Dumbarton Oaks, (May 12, 1983-July 7, 1983); cat. no. 25, repr. f. 200r; f. 189v.

Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., (October 12, 1991-January 12, 1992); cat. no. 34.

Illuminating the Renaissance, J. Paul Getty Musuem, (June 17 - September 7, 2003); ex. cat. no. 105, p. 359. --- PROVENANCE Unidentified first owner? (c. 1500) date: c.1500- footnotes: citations: Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Castile date: footnotes: citations: Baron Edmond de Rothschild (Late 1800s till 1934) date: footnotes: citations: Baron Maurice de Rothschild date: 1934-1954 footnotes: citations: (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 1954-1963 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh date: 1963- footnotes: citations: --- 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. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Scillia, Diane Graybowski. Gerard David and Manuscript Illumination in the Low Countries, 1480-1509. 1975. page number: pp. 228-32 url: 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 url: "Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 59, no. 4 (1972) page number: pp. 109-11 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Berthold Fricke. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970. page number: pp. 36-7 url: Manion, Margaret M., and Vera F. Vines. Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts in Australian Collections. Melbourne: Thames and Hudson, 1984. page number: p. 153 url: 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 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Interpretations: Sixty-Five Works from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 1991. page number: p. 12 url: 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 url: Smeyers, Maurits. Flemish Miniatures from the 8th to the Mid-16th Century: The Medieval World on Parchment. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999. page number: p. 478 url: May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: p. 30 & 117 url: Crucifixion. London: Phaidon, 2000. page number: pp. 92-93 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: pp. 224-227 url: Levenson, Jay A. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1991. page number: pp. 155-6 url: Pelikan, Jaroslav, and Jaroslav Pelikan. The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. page number: pp. 4-5 url: Hollander, Anne. Moving Pictures. New York: Knopf, 1989. page number: pp. 69-70 url: Dekeyzer, Brigitte. Layers of Illusion: The Mayer Van Den Bergh Breviary. [Ghent]: Ludion, 2004. page number: pp. 123, 150, 167 url: Rudy, Kathryn M., and Barbara Baert. Weaving, veiling, and dressing: textiles and their metaphors in the late Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. page number: pp. 147-48 url: France, James. Medieval Images of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Kalamazoo, Mich: Cistercian Publications, 2007. page number: p. 379 url: Nieuwdorp, Hans M. J., and Brigitte Dekeyzer. Breviarium Mayer Van den Bergh: alle miniaturen. Gent: Ludion, 1997. page number: url: Dekeyzer, Brigitte, and Jan van der Stock. Manuscripts in transition: recycling manuscripts, texts, and images : proceedings of the International Congres held in Brussels (5-9 November 2002). Paris: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2005. page number: p. 218 url: Società di storia della miniatura. Miniatura: studi di storia dell'illustrazione e decorazione del libro. Firenze: Alinari, 1988. page number: pp. 123-124 url: Gnann, Achim, Heinz Widauer, Katja Gnann, and Konrad Oberhuber. Festschrift Für Konrad Oberhuber. Milano: Electa, 2000. page number: pp. 215-233 url: Campbell, Barbara F., and James P. Campbell. Finding God: Our Response to God's Gifts. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2013. page number: p. 218 url: 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 url: Kesel, Lieve de. “Almost Restored The Hours of Archduchess Isabella Clara Eugenia Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, 78 B 15.” Jahrbuch der Berliner (2001) page number: url: Catholic Church, Isabella, and Lieve De Kesel. Libro de horas de Isabel la Católica = Isabella la Catholica Book of Hours. 2013 page number: url: 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 url: Fliegel, Stephen N. Resplendent Faith: Liturgical Treasuries of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2009. page number: p. 39, fig. 34 url: Fliegel, Stephen N., and Stephen N. Fliegel. A Higher Contemplation: Sacred Meaning in the Christian Art of the Middle Ages. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2012. page number: p. 43, fig 34; p. 44, fig 35 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: p. 156-7 url: López Montilla, María Jesús. El libro de horas: un libro selecto de devoción privada. 2012. page number: p. 118, fig. 25 url: Coleman, Joyce, Mark Cruse, and Kathryn A. Smith. The Social Life of Illumination: Manuscripts, Images, and Communities in the Late Middle Ages. 2013. page number: p. 488, fig. 125 url: Hindman, Sandra, and James H. Marrow. Books of hours reconsidered. 2013. page number: p. 50, footnote 12 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. The Cleveland Museum of Art. 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Copy To Clipboard page number: Referenced: cat. no. 105, p. 359 url: De Hamel, Christopher. Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts London: Allen Lane with an imprint of Penguin Books. 2016. page number: Mentioned: p. 540, 550, 608 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1963.256/1963.256_full.tif