Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519)
and Associates
c. 1500
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Codex: 23.5 x 17.3 x 4.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 13/16 x 1 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Flanders, Bruges and Ghent
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The original owner of this exquisite book of hours was Queen Isabella of Spain, who sponsored Christopher Columbus's exploratory voyage to the Americas. Eventually this book found its way to the New World and was acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1963.
