The Gualenghi d'Este Hours: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Ferrara

$110.00 at The Getty Museum.

Kurt Barstow One of the most important Italian manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, the lavishly illuminated Gualenghi-d'Este Hours was created around 1469, for the occasion of the marriage of diplomat Andrea Gualengo to Orsina d'Este, a member of Ferrara's ruling family. The devotional book features brilliant figural decoration of the suffrages short prayers to saints and was painted by Taddeo Crivelli, one of the major manuscript illuminators of the Renaissance. This volume includes…