id: 169749 accession number: 2011.64 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2011.64 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:50.958000 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, 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 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: This book, made by an artist of 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 an effect of spaciousness. These motifs included a diverse assortment of flowers, butterflies, insects, birds, and sprays of acanthus foliage. --- 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