Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)

c. 1410–20
(Flemish, active c. 1414–20)
Leaf: 17 x 12.1 cm (6 11/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
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This finely preserved leaf with its large miniature is stylistically consistent with the work of the Boethius Illuminator. An unusual and very original painter, he was named after a manuscript copy of the works of the Roman philosopher Boethius (AD 480-524), which he illuminated in 1414. The artist favored bright, sweeping colors and expressionistic compositions. He used tessellated (mosaic-patterned) grounds in his miniatures, as is the case here. The Boethius Illuminator and his assistants participated in the illustration of over a dozen manuscripts between 1414 and 1418/20. It was not unusual for artists working in different styles to collaborate on a single book of hours during the 1400s and 1500s.
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)

Leaf from a Book of Hours: Annunciation to the Shepherds (recto) and Text (verso)

c. 1410–20

Boethius Illuminator

(Flemish, active c. 1414–20)
France, Paris (?), 15th century

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