Simon Bening (1483-1561), Leaf from a Book of Hours: Saint Sebald of Nuremberg, about 1515-1525. MMFA, purchase, Horsley and Annie Townsend Bequest. Photo: MMFA, Christine Guest.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
1380 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec
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Curator
Brenda Dunn-Lardeau, Hilliard T. Goldfarb and Richard Virr
Presenting for the first time the remarkable Books of Hours conserved in 7 Quebec collections, “Resplendent Illuminations” is a unique opportunity to admire some 50 works primarily from illuminated manuscripts—a priceless legacy of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe.
Editors' Comment
Gothic and Renaissance illuminations from France, the Southern Netherlands, Italy and Southern Germany, as well as other contemporaneous expressions of popular piety, are lined up on view in this exhibition.