Due to the lack of knowledge about his true identity, the miniaturist responsible for all this was named after the manuscript: the Master of Catherine of Cleves.Īt the end of 2009, Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen had the honor of welcoming “Kitty” to the Netherlands for the third time for the exhibition Catherine’s World: Devotion, Demons and Daily Life in the Fifteenth Century, not far from the place that the Grand Dame was taken into hand by her first owner almost six hundred years ago. However, to scholars specializing in medieval books, the Cleves Hours is a household name and the decoration is widely regarded as the pinnacle of Dutch painting of the Late Middle Ages. In the past fifty years the public had several opportunities to get acquainted with “Kitty,” as the book is affectionately called by the library staff, although visitors to the exhibitions had to content themselves with the four opening pages of the two books, sometimes complemented by reproductions on the wall. Both parts miraculously found their way into the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. The Book of Hours, made around 1440, has weathered the centuries in remarkable condition-missing only a few leaves-but was divided into two parts in the middle of the nineteenth century. Instead of being regarded as a rather provincial school, Dutch book illumination was appreciated much more after the Cleves Hours had the chance to reveal her beauty to the world. The discovery of the Book of Hours of Duchess Catherine of Cleves in the 1960s caused many art historians to change their views on fifteenth-century northern Netherlandish book illumination in a positive way. Performance Art/Performance Studies/Public Practice.Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration.Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistc Practice.Digital Media/New Media/Web-Based Media.Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation.Subject, Genre, Media, Artistic Practice.
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