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Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms

Noel Bellemarec. 1530-1535

The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States

The 1520s Hours Workshop produced luxury books of hours for a wealthy, often royal, clientele. Recent evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop’s activity under the direction of Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare (died 1546). Containing fuschia pinks and bright acid greens, the palette is unusual in French manuscript painting of the period. Instead, Bellemare’s miniatures point directly to Antwerp painting at the time.

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  • Title: Leaf from a Book of Hours: Penitential Psalms
  • Creator: Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546), The 1520s Hours Workshop (French)
  • Date Created: c. 1530-1535
  • Physical Dimensions: Each leaf: 11.2 x 6.4 cm (4 7/16 x 2 1/2 in.)
  • Provenance: Baron Jerome Pichon (1812-1896); [Richard Day, London (no. 69 only)]; [Sam Fogg, London]; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]
  • Type: Manuscript
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2003.174.2
  • 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: 2003.174.2

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