Sujet
Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion, c. 1300-1330. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Leaf from a Psalter: The Crucifixion, c. 1300-1330. The diocese of Liège was extremely active as a production center for psalters and psalter-hours from the second half of the 1200s through about 1330. This market, no doubt, was stimulated by the need of women for a devotional text. As women were drawn to the convents of religious orders such as the Dominicans, the Beguines and Begards, and the Poor Clares, they had need of a book that would provide them with suitable devotional material. The psalter was the book that these women, many of whom were high-born, most commonly used. The present leaf, with its monumental miniature of the Crucifixion, and like many surviving 13th-century psalters, may have thus provided visual focus for the prayers of a woman in a convent setting. Customarily, the level of quality and the extent to which these books were decorated depended upon the means of the patron.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F91_090
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,1Mo (5,9Mo) / 31,5cm x 39,9cm / 3719 x 4713 (300dpi)