Museum Exhibition

The Medieval World at Our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman

Art Institute of Chicago

January 27, 2018 – May 28, 2018

Nearly 30 manuscript illuminations present a fascinating microcosm of medieval Europe—from the sacred context of the great Gothic cathedrals to the cosmopolitan culture of the sunlit Italian courts.

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Exhibition artworks

Representative work

English Painter (Master of the Lydgate Troybook) English (London), active about 1420–1430

Jacob and Rachel Lamenting their Son Joseph

1420/30

Opaque watercolor and mordent gilding on parchment

9.5 × 9.2 cm (3 3/4 × 3 5/8 in.)

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Featured works

Maestro Daddesco

Christ Blessing Three Young Men, initial M from a Gradual

1320/30

Opaque watercolor, with shell gold and gold leaf, on parchment

13.8 × 13.1 cm (5 7/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

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Masters of Zweder van Culemborg Northern Netherlandish (Utrecht), about 1415-1440

Nehemiah before King Artaxerxes, initial ‘C’ from a Bible

about 1430

Opaque watercolor, gold leaf, mordant gilding, and pen and black ink, with touches of pen and brown ink (recto), and pen and black ink, with touches of red opaque watercolor and pen and brown ink (verso), on parchment

7.4 × 8.9 cm (2 15/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

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