id: 169745 accession number: 2011.60 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.60 updated: 2023-05-09 11:31:12.409000 Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440–50. Master of Thomas Hoo (French). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 20.2 x 14.4 cm (7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.60 title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1440–50 creation date earliest: 1435 creation date latest: 1455 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: France, Paris, 15th century technique: ink, tempera and gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Master of Thomas Hoo (French) - artist Also know as Master of Jean de Popincourt --- measurements: Leaf: 20.2 x 14.4 cm (7 15/16 x 5 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Deus in adiutorium meum intende... translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations opening date: 1999-12-19T00:00:00 The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 46, illus. p. 49. --- PROVENANCE [Bruce Ferrini (1949-2010), Akron, OH, sold to Ms. Jeanne Miles Blackburn] date: footnotes: citations: Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: -2011 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2011- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This page begins the prayers to be said at the hour of sext, or the sixth hour of the day (around noon). digital description: wall description: The artist of this miniature takes his name from a Book of Hours made for Thomas, Lord Hoo, chancellor of Normandy and of France, a volume now in the British Library, London. The Master of Thomas Hoo originally worked in Paris and then perhaps moved upstream to Rouen, following the retreat of the English armies during their occupation of France in the Hundred Years War. His style is characterized by a rich palette, lush draperies, and finely delineated landscapes. Gold leaf was thickly applied and the artist generally used liquid gold to highlight the hems of his figures' refined and elegant garments. The Adoration of the Magi, an important image in Christian tradition, recalls the first gentiles to recognize Christ. Just as the Three Magi often represent the three ages of man-youth, maturity, and old age-so their gifts had symbolic reference to key aspects of Christ's life. Gold symbolized his kingship; frankincense his priesthood; and myrhh, being used for embalming, stood for his Passion and death. Follower of the Master of Adélaïde de Savoie (France, probably Poitiers) --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 49, cat. no. 46 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n61 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.60/2011.60_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.60/2011.60_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.60/2011.60_full.tif