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The Crucifixion: Miniature Excised from a Prayer Book
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About this work
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 production and export of art.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Crucifixion: Miniature Excised from a Prayer Book, c. 1540–1550. Flanders, Antwerp(?). Tempera on vellum; sheet: 10 x 8.4 cm (3 15/16 x 3 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Henry A. Everett for the Dorothy Burnham Everett Memorial Collection, 1932.135
