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"title": "Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial H",
"creation_date": "c. 1470\u20131480",
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"department": "Medieval Art",
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"title": "The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations",
"description": "The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).",
"opening_date": "1999-12-19T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 368624,
"title": "The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260\u20131550",
"description": "The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260\u20131550. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014).",
"opening_date": "2013-12-16T05:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 56, illus. p. 58.",
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"description": "Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014.",
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"description": "The difficulty in localizing Dutch manuscripts of the second half of the 15th century is formidable. Many shared or exchanged characteristics are found, particularly in terms of page layout, border decoration, and initial design. The present leaf contains borders embellished with brightly colored flowers (columbines) and acanthus leaves filled in with gold bezants, tiny green leaves, and little black dots. Though different in palette, these elements bear closest resemblance to borders and initials produced by a group of artists associated with the Zwolle Bible (Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS. 31). The original illuminators are believed to have worked within the Monastery of the Canons Regular at Agnietenberg. This leaf is painted in an associated style by an artist who must have been familiar with the Zwolle group.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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