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Book of Hours

Master of Jacques of Luxembourg · 1466 · 27 pictures

A illuminated Book of Hours made around 1466 in the Netherlands or northern France by the Master of Jacques of Luxembourg, a manuscript prayer book for private devotion held by the J. Paul Getty Museum. Its pictures are painted miniatures framed in arches and dense borders of flowers, gold, birds and fruit, with saints, the Nativity and evangelists in rich blue, red and gold, offering a designer strong models for ornamental framing, rich colour palettes and decorative border systems.

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