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accession number:	2011.66
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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves), c. 1510. France, Rouen, 16th century. Ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum; leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2011.66

title:				Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto) and Text with Illustrated Border (verso) (3 of 3 Excised Leaves)
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creation date:			c. 1510
creation date earliest:		1505
creation date latest:		1515
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creditline:			The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
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culture:	France, Rouen, 16th century
technique:	ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Manuscript Illuminations
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Leaf: 19.5 x 13 cm (7 11/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
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PROVENANCE

	Carlton R. Richmond; [Sotheby's, New York, 30 October 1981, lot 54]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron].
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Characteristic of the artist's hand, the bright orange-reds combine with deep blues, greens, and an abundance of gold wash in this leaf. He used fine parallel lines or crosshatching in gold to indicate the shading, highlights, and texture of draperies, suggesting some knowledge of printmaking, an art for which Rouen was also an important center. His figures have large, thickly outlined oval faces. This miniature also demonstrates the emerging fashion in both Rouen and Paris for highly involved, Italianate architectural frames: winged putti, swags, urns, garlands, scallop shells, pillasters, and masks. These elements could be assembled in different ways so that no two frames were identical. Rouen in the late 1400s and early 1500s was an established and important center for book production. Richly decorated library texts and books of hours, such as the present leaves, were made in Rouen for sale in the<em> cours des libraires</em>, next to the cathedral.
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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. 66, cat. no. 64
	url:		https://archive.org/details/BlackburnIlluminations/page/n78

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