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Book of Hours (Use of Rouen): fol. 141r, Opening of the Gospel of Luke
Master of the Geneva Latini (French, active Rouen, 1460–80)
c. 1470
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Codex: 19.5 x 13.1 cm (7 11/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, Rouen
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of the Feiss family in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Paul L. Feiss
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In the late 1400s and early 1500s Rouen was an established and important center of book production. The city’s cathedral had a wealthy chapter that spent large sums of money to commission books and to maintain its extensive library. The stationers and booksellers would have likely been concentrated in or near the cathedral precinct. This artist, named after a manuscript now in Geneva, was Rouen’s principal illuminator during the second half of the 1400s.
