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19 Items in this Learning Collection

Libyan Sibyl, a leaf from an early printed book

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Illuminated Leaf from Book of Hours

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Velvet Chausable with embroidered panel of St. Paul

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Bust of a Bishop

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Leaf from a Book of Hours (Suffrage to St. Barbara)

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Presentation in the Temple (Leaf from a Book of Hours)

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Leaf from a Choir Book with Nativity

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Priest Celebrating a Mass (Leaf from the Tarleton Hours)

This page of an illuminated manuscript on thin parchment is vertically oriented. Centered in the upper two-thirds of the page is a window-shaped scene of a priest celebrating mass. The priest, with red and white robes and a tonsure, holds up a communion wafer at an altar that has a bible and a communion goblet on it and an image of two figures with halos behind them. The altar and the priest’s robes are trimmed with gold leaf. Behind the priest are two kneeling figures, a man and a woman. They are in the interior of a gothic church, with stone vaulting above them. Below the scene are four lines of calligraphy with the first letter, a ‘D’, highly decorated. Decorative detailing surrounds the text and the scene. The left side consists of an ivy-like plant growing out of the "D", and the bottom and right sides have different foliate-derived design depicted in ink, tempera and gold.

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Schöne Madonna

Bust of Madonna with head facing down and to the side. The main sculpture is of wood with layers of paint on the face and veil.

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Embroidered Panel

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Gamepiece of an Armed Knight Throttling a Monstrous, Bearded Chimera

Round, carved gamepiece featuring the image of a figure in armor sitting on top of and stabbing a winged creature with a beard.

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Coronation of the Virgin

A page from a manuscript depicting a woman, kneeling to be crowned, while a standing man blesses her. She is surrounded by a court of angels in an architectural setting in the clouds.

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Eve Tempted by the Serpent

A nude woman with long hair flowing down her back grasps a tree branch with her right hand and bends it downward in order to more easily pluck the green fruit dangling at its tip with her left hand. Her white body contrasts starkly with the darker tones of the surrounding landscape. The less conspicuous figure of a serpent with the head of a bearded man coils about the trunk of the tree next to the woman and fixes her with his stare.

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An angel, holding a scepter in his left hand and making a gesture of speech with his right, interrupts the Virgin at her reading. She kneels on the floor and rests her left hand on an open book placed atop a lectern. A vase with a flowering lily sits on the floor between the angel and the Virgin and a small white dove encircled by a halo hovers between them. The scene unfolds within an elaborate and richly decorated interior that includes a chair and canopied bed in the background.

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Escutcheon - Armorial Bearings

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Escutcheon - Armorial Bearings

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Processional cross with triumphant Christ (Christus triumphans) flanked by busts of the evangelists, Saints Matthew, John, Mark, and Luke (obverse); and suffering Christ (Christus patiens) flanked by busts of the Virgin Mary, God the father, Saint John and unidentified male saint with cross (Saint Philip?) (reverse)

The arms of the cross end in quatrefoil-shaped terminals. The front (obverse) is gilded and features a molding along the edges. The back (reverse) has a deep azurite blue ground and a gilded band punched with tiny rosettes that runs along the border.

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Madonna and Child on a Grassy Bench

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The Nativity of the Virgin

This painted panel depicts an intimate domestic setting consisting of a bedchamber with a fireplace and a smaller vaulted antechamber that opens out on a garden. A haloed woman wearing a white veil rests in bed, having recently given birth. She leans to her right as she reaches toward a basin held by an attendant and looks across the room to the infant who is held on the lap of another servant. A halo also encircles the head of the child and a pair of angels fly above her. Several other attendants and midwives bustle about the room, while another woman, more richly clad than the servants, gazes on the child from her seat at the foot of the bed. In the antechamber sits a haloed man in a long white beard, who leans forward to hear news of the birth from the child standing in front of him. A companion sits behind him and a servant passes through the door into the bedchamber.

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Illuminated Leaf from Book of Hours

Accession Number
2018/1.312

Title
Illuminated Leaf from Book of Hours

Artist(s)
Flemish; French

Artist Nationality
Flemish (culture or style)

; Artist Nationality
French (culture or style)

Object Creation Date
15th century

Medium & Support
ink, color, gold leaf on vellum

Dimensions
11 ¾ in x 9 in (29.85 cm x 22.86 cm)

Credit Line
Gift of Ilene H. Forsyth

Physical Description
Two-sided leaf with Latin words in black ink decorated with gold and color on the border.

Primary Object Classification
Unbound Work

Primary Object Type
leaf

Collection Area
Western

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