id:			163800
accession number:	2005.205
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit), 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 12.7 x 8.4 cm (5 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2005.205

title:				Leaf from a Book of Hours: Decorated Initial D[eus] with Foliated Border (Opening of Terce: Hours of the Holy Spirit)
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creation date:			1430s
creation date earliest:		1430
creation date latest:		1439
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	Flanders, Ghent?, 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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CREATORS

* Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish)  - artist
(Jean de Pestivien?)
* Workshop  - artist

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measurements: Each leaf: 12.7 x 8.4 cm (5 x 3 5/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations
	opening date:   1999-12-19T00:00:00
	<i>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000).

	title:		The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115
	opening date:   2013-12-16T05:00:00
	<i>The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 42, illus. p. 46.

* Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014.

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PROVENANCE

	[Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
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The Master of Guillebert de Mets (probably Jean de Pestivien) is named after the scribe who recorded his name in an illuminated copy of the <em>Decameron</em> (a collection of stories by Giovanni Boccaccio, written 1351–53) made for Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy, and for which the artist contributed several miniatures. The Master of Guillebert de Mets was active from about 1410 to 1445. So far there is no proof that allows us to follow his career or to know precisely where he worked. Some evidence, however, hints that he was of Flemish origin. The artist painted in an easily recognizable style. His figures have prominent heads with clearly delineated eyes and small mouths, slender torsos with thin, spindly legs, and long, finely worked fingers. Many of his miniatures, such as the Crucifixion and Last Judgment here, show that he often favored mosaic backgrounds of delicately worked checkered patterns.
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		169742
	Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Crucifixion, 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 14.1 x 10.1 cm (5 9/16 x 4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.58
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	id: 		160821
	Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Last Judgment, 1430s. Master of Guillebert de Mets (Flemish), and Workshop. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 12.6 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 1999.130
	relationship: 	

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CITATIONS

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 45; Reproduced: p. 46, cat. no. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n58

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