id:			164582
accession number:	2006.11
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updated:		2023-03-20 10:12:17.039000

Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Bartholomew, c. 1440–1460. Flanders, Bruges (?), 15th century. Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; each leaf: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2006.11

title:				Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Bartholomew
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creation date:			c. 1440–1460
creation date earliest:		1435
creation date latest:		1465
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	Flanders, Bruges (?), 15th century
technique:	ink, tempera and gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Each leaf: 12.5 x 8.5 cm (4 15/16 x 3 3/8 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. 53, illus. p. 55.

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

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PROVENANCE

	The marquess of Bute [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 13 June 1983, lot 28]; [Graton and Graton, Evanston, Ill.]
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Little is known of the life or acts of Saint Bartholomew, one of the twelve apostles. The Golden Legend records the tradition that Bartholomew preached in India and Armenia after Christ’s resurrection. It was in Armenia that the saint was martyred by being flayed alive. His attribute in art, as shown here, is typically a knife, the instrument of his death. The saint is shown standing within an architectural interior with a paneled ceiling, leaded windows, tiled floor, and a hanging cloth embellished with stars. The artist has not yet been identified, though his slightly expressionistic style and jagged, irregular drapery folds, as well as the border decoration, are typical of Flemish manuscript painting around the mid-1400s.
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RELATED WORKS

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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 and Reproduced: p. 55, cat. no. 53
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n67

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