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Leaf from a Book of Hours: St. Matthew

Limbourg Brothers

Cleveland Museum of Art

The image shows a page from a book with an illustration of a man sitting on the ground. The man has a halo around his head and wears a blue robe over a pink shirt. He sits cross-legged on green ground in front of a brown patterned wall and holds an open book in his hands. The illustration is surrounded by a gold border with blue and orange floral designs. The border is made up of a thin gold line with a thicker gold line on the inside. Inside the bottom part of the gold border is red and brown text in a foreign language. The page has a white background with a floral border around the gold border. The floral border consists of blue, orange, and green vines with flowers and leaves. The page has a black background behind it.

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633 × 893 px
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