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Adjoining Leaves from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms and King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Noel Bellemarec. 1530-35
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The 1520s Hours Workshop produced "jewel-like" luxury books of hours for a wealthy and royal clientele. Until recently the workshop was believed to be in Tours on the Loire. However, recent evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop’s activity under the direction of Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare. The palette is characterized by fuchsia pinks and bright acid greens—both unusual in French manuscript painting of the period. The miniatures are either framed with illusionistic borders in the Flemish style or enclosed within "Fontainebleau"-style architectural frames.
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- Title: Adjoining Leaves from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms and King David in Prayer (2 of 3 Excised Leaves)
- Creator: Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), The 1520s Hours Workshop (French)
- Date Created: c. 1530-35
- Physical Dimensions: Each leaf: 11.2 x 6.4 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Baron Jerome Pichon, Paris, France (1812-1896), [Richard Day, London, England (no. 69 only)], [Sam Fogg, London, England], [Bruce Ferrini, Akron, OH, sold to Jeanne Miles Blackburn], Jeanne Miles Blackburn, Maitland, FL, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Manuscript
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.174
- Medium: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum
- Inscriptions: ...Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia: Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia. Sequuntur septem pfalmi penitentiales. Antiphona. Ne reminiscaris. psalmus: Domine , ne in durore tuo arguas me Miserere mei domine quoniam infirmus sum : sana me domine, quoniam conturbata sunt ossa mea Et anima mea turbata est valde : sed tu domine usquequo Convertere domine et eripe animam meam : salvum me fac propter misericordiam tuam. Quoniam non est in morte qui memor sit tui : in inferno autem quis confitebitur tibi.
- Department: Medieval Art
- Culture: France, 16th century
- Credit Line: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- Collection: MED - Manuscript Illuminations
- Accession Number: 2003.174
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