The Annunciation (Matins, Office of the Virgin): Leaf from a Book of Hours (1 of 3 Excised Leaves)
Noël Bellemare (French, d. 1546)
and The 1520s Hours Workshop (French)
c. 1530–35
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellum
- Classification
- Manuscript
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.7 x 6.5 cm (3 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Medieval Art
- Credit line
- The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection
- 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
Unusual in French manuscript painting of the period, fuchsia pinks and bright acid greens characterize the painting’s palette. The figures are set in the foreground of the miniature and enclosed within a "Fontainebleau"-style architectural frame. The 1520s Hours Workshop primarily produced jewel-like luxury books of hours for a wealthy clientele. Evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop's activity under the direction of the Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare (died 1546).
