MS M.399, fol. 6r
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Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)
Ghent, Belgium
ca. 1515
172 x 125 mm
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910
MS M.399, fol. 6r
Description:
A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. On the right side of the frame is a statue of a male figure in an illusionistic architectural niche. Along the bottom border is a landscape. Within the landscape is a bull, the zodiac sign Taurus, standing in a field enclosed by a fence. It is within an illusionistic roundel frame.
Credits:
Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria.