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Book of Hours, Use of Paris

Simon Vostre

Art Institute of Chicago

Artwork Details

Date
1508
Medium
Woodcut, metalcut, and letterpress in black with brush and gouache, and pen and ink on vellum (discolored at edges), in eighteenth-century full red goatskin, sewn on raised bands, with Cambridge-style gold tooling, rolled edges in gold, gold stamped spine decoration, hand-sewn silk headbands, and marbled endsheets
Culture
France
Public Domain
Yes
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