id: 169749 accession number: 2011.64 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.64 updated: 2022-01-04 17:53:40.239000 Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity, c. 1480. Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444-1519). Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 10.8 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.64 title: Leaf Excised from a Book of Hours: The Nativity title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1480 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1485 current location: creditline: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection copyright: --- culture: Flanders, Ghent, 15th century technique: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations type: Manuscript 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" --- measurements: Leaf: 10.8 x 8.2 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- 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 (organizer) (December 19, 1999-February 27, 2000). title: The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115 opening date: 2013-12-16T05:00:00 The Netherlandish Miniature, 1260-1550 (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 2013-December 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 19 December 1999 - 27 February 2000, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations, cat. 57, illus. p. 59.

Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 115): December 16, 2013 - December 8, 2014. --- PROVENANCE [Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1985, lot 17]; [Sam Fogg, London]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Ghent-Bruges school of illumination represents the culmination of Flemish book painting. Its main features were the use of rich colors, decorative and illusionistic effects, a love of landscape, and a strong sense of visual narrative. Its most distinctive innovation was the development of a new style of border decoration featuring realistic motifs which cast shadows onto colored grounds to create a trompe l’oeil effect. These motifs included a rich assortment of flowers, butterflies, insects, birds, and sprays of acanthus foliage. Foremost among the exponents of this style was the illuminator Alexander Bening. He is known to have entered the painter’s guild in Ghent in 1469. Little else is known about Alexander’s career. It must be assumed, however, that he worked in close association with other miniaturists and panel painters such as Roger van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, and Gerard David, whose compositions are often adapted or replicated in Alexander’s miniatures --- 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. 59, cat. no. 57 url: https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n71 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.64/2011.64_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.64/2011.64_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2011.64/2011.64_full.tif