Flanders, Bruges and Ghent / c. 1500
Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain
The Cleveland Museum of Art catalogs Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, Queen of Spain as bound volume (Flanders, Bruges and Ghent · c. 1500).
Isabella’s book of hours may have in its margins one of the first depictions of a daffodil in manuscript painting.
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The museum identifies this bound volume as ink, tempera, and gold on vellum and credits Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximillian (Flemish, c. 1444–1519).
The museum's collection notes: 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.
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