Villagers on Their Way to Church – (Simon Bening) Tidigare Nästa


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datum: 1550

storlek: 5 x 9 cm

museum: J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, United States)

Teknik: Parchment

As the local parish church prepares for services, villagers and rural peasants make their way down the path. In the distance, fields, gently rolling hills, buildings, and groves of trees give shape to the landscape. The candlelit procession inside the church, as well as the candles held by the approaching villagers, suggest the celebration of Candlemas, a church holiday observed the second of February. An earlier owner probably cut the miniature from the lower border of the calendar of a book of hours. Despite its small size, Bening

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