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"tombstone": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso), c. 1410\u201320. Boethius Illuminator (Flemish, active c. 1414\u201320). Ink, tempera and gold on vellum; leaf: 17 x 12.1 cm (6 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection, 2014.22",
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"title": "Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)",
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"description": "This finely preserved leaf with its large miniature is stylistically consistent with the work of the Boethius Illuminator. An unusual and very original painter, he was named after a manuscript copy of the works of the Roman philosopher Boethius (AD 480-524), which he illuminated in 1414. The artist favored bright, sweeping colors and expressionistic compositions. He used tessellated (mosaic-patterned) grounds in his miniatures, as is the case here. The Boethius Illuminator and his assistants participated in the illustration of over a dozen manuscripts between 1414 and 1418/20. It was not unusual for artists working in different styles to collaborate on a single book of hours during the 1400s and 1500s.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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