Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
The Medieval World at Our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman
Art Institute of Chicago
10 documented works
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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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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German Painter
Christ before the High Priest Annas, from a Plenarium
about 1470
Pen and brown ink and watercolor (recto) and pen and brown ink, with brush and red opaque watercolor (verso), on cream laid paper
11.4 × 14.8 cm (4 1/2 × 5 7/8 in.)
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Jakob Elsner
Saint Benedict, initial ‘O’, with border fragments from a Missal
1491
Opaque watercolor, gold leaf with punching, mordant gilding with touches of ruled graphite on pieced parchment
30.7 × 28.2 cm (12 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
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Master of the Munich Saint John on Patmos German (Bavaria), active about 1525-1535
The Visitation
c. 1525
Opaque watercolor, over pen and brown ink, heightened with shell gold, on parchment
Sight: 13.7 × 10.2 cm (5 7/16 × 4 1/16 in.)
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Master B. F. (possibly Francesco Binasco) Italian (Lombardy), about 1490-about 1545
Miracle of the Deer of Saint Bassiano, from a Choir Book
1500/10
Opaque watercolor and shell gold on parchment
12.6 × 29.5 cm (5 × 11 5/8 in.)
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School of Weingarten Abbey
Saint Gregory as Author
1188/1200
Opaque watercolor on parchment
34.9 × 24.5 cm (13 3/4 × 9 11/16 in.)
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French Painter, active in Northern France
Leaf from a Picture Cycle: Christ Carrying the Cross, The Crucifixion, The Descent from the Cross, and the Entombment
1325/50
Opaque watercolor, gold leaf and mordant gilding with French inscriptions in gothica textualis in pen and light brown, red and blue ink, on parchment
28.4 × 20.3 cm (11 3/16 × 8 in.)
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Neri da Rimini
Joseph and his Brothers at the Well, Initial V from an Antiphonary
1310/15
Opaque watercolor, with shell gold and pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink, with opaque watercolor (verso), on parchment
Initial: 14 × 13 cm (5 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.); Sheet: 54.5 × 38.6 cm (21 1/2 × 15 1/4 in.)
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