The Crucifixion: Miniature Excised from a Prayer Book
Unknown Artist
c. 1540–1550
Medium
tempera on vellum
Dimensions
10 × 8.4 cm
Classification
Manuscript
Department
Medieval Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection
Accession Number
1932.135
About this artwork
The illuminator is unknown, but his style seems to conform to that known as "Antwerp Mannerism." It emerged among a group of Antwerp painters during the first half of the 1500s. Bolstered by its rich trade and cultural contacts, the port city of Antwerp attracted hundreds of artists-many of them from northern France, the Rhineland, and especially Holland-who joined the local painters’ Guild of Saint Luke, established large painting and sculpture workshops, and fed an expanding market for the pro...