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Exhibition Review
Resplendent Illuminations: Books of Hours from the 13th to the 16th Century in Quebec Collections. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1045-1047
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Reviewer:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
Subjects
art literature:
Ricci, Seymour de
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Illuminated manuscripts
museums and institutions:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
places:
Canada / Montreal
subjects:
Books of hours / Prayer books / Psalters / Catalogues raisonnés / Literature / Collecting / Book collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Religious art / Catholicism / Jesuits
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
10. St Helena and the invention of the True Cross, Southern Germany. c.1520. Parchment, 11 by 8 cm. (McGill University Library, Montreal, MS 162; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; photograph Gregory Houston).
Western art unattributed:
11. Woman reading in a studiolo, leaf from a book of hours, Venice or Padua (?). c.1375. Parchment, tempera, gold leaf and ink on six pieces of parchment mounted on paper, 14 by 9.5 cm. (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no.1957.1368; photograph MMFA, Christine Guest).
Western art unattributed:
9. Arrest of Christ and the kiss of Judas, Augsburg. c.1235–50. Parchment, 13.5 by 9 cm. (McGill University Library, Montreal, MS 161; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).