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Its 157 miniatures are by the gifted Master of Catherine of Cleves (active ca. 1435-60), who is named after this book. The Master of Catherine of Cleves is considered the finest and most original illuminator of the medieval northern Netherlands, and this manuscript is his masterpiece.
25 de sept. de 2022 · Catherine was the daughter of Adolph I, Duke of Cleves and Marie of Burgundy. She was a niece of Philip the Good. Book of Hours. The Hours of Catherine of Cleves was commissioned for her when she married Arnold, Duke of Guelders, on 26 January 1430. It shows her lineage, as well as herself in prayer.
After Catherine Howard was beheaded, Anne and her brother, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, pressed the king to remarry Anne. Henry quickly refused to do so. She seems to have disliked Catherine Parr, and reportedly reacted to the news of Henry's sixth marriage with the remark "Madam Parr is taking a great burden on herself."
There is no more inventive—or scary—miniature in Catherine's prayer book than this full-page depiction of hell. A gaping lion's mouth opens its batlike lips tipped with talons; inside is another, red-hot maw. Demons cast damned souls into this terrifying entrance to the furnace of hell, above which rises the castle of death decorated with skulls. Burning towers heat caldrons into which ...
Catherine of Cleves’ hell is not as scatological as some by Hieronymous Bosch (ca. 1450-ca. 1516), who would take up the theme a little later, but hers is unnerving nonetheless. Deathbed is as much a genre scene as a religious warning that all things pass.
January 22 through May 2, 2010. Online exhibition ». The Hours of Catherine of Cleves is the most important and lavish of all Dutch manuscripts as well as one of the most beautiful in the Morgan's collection. Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves around 1440 and illustrated by an artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves, the work is an ...
10 de mar. de 2024 · Anne of Cleves was the fourth in a long line of women to marry King Henry VIII. Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, and Jane Seymour had all gone before her. Catherine of Aragon had been divorced in 1533, Anne Boleyn had been beheaded in 1536, and Jane Seymour had died in 1537. But Anne of Cleves was special for one reason alone.
