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Front Row - Illuminating the Renaissance


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Simon Bening
December, apparently from a Calendar,
probably late 1540s or early 1550s
© 2003 The British Library Board

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Gerard David
The Virgin and Child, in a Book of Hours,
1486 manuscript
Photo © Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid

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Pieter Brueghel
The Elder Landscape with a Magpie on the Gallows,
1568 oil on panel 4
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

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Gerard David
Saint Catherine, from the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary, c. 1500
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Photo © IRPA-KIK, Brussels

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Vienna Master

Mary of Burgundy Reading Her Devotions, in the Hours of Mary of Burgundy,
c. 1470 to 75
Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
Photo Bildarchiv d. ONB, Vienna

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Gerard David and another illuminator
The Virgin among Virgins, c. 1505-10
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York
Photo Joseph Zehavi

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Gerard David
The Nativity, Breviary of Isabella of Castile, c. 1488-97
The British Library, London
Photo © 2003 The British Library Board

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Master of James IV of Scotland The Annunciation and Gideon and the Golden Fleece, Spinola Hours
c. 1510 to 20
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Photo courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Master of the Dresden Prayer Book
The Temperate and the Intemperate, in Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits memorables des romains, c. 1475 to 80
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Photo courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Master of the Houghton Miniatures
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, from the Emerson-White Hours, late 1470s early 1480s
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Photo courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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Gerard Horenbout and Giovanni Pietro Birago
The Flight into Egypt, from the Hours of Bona Sforza
c. 1490 and c. 1517 to 21
The British Library, London
Photo © 2003 The British Library Board

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Simon Marmion
St Bernard's Vision of the Virgin and Child, from a devotional book
c. 1475 to 80
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Photo courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Museum
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