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Villagers on Their Way to Church; Book of Hours, about 1550. Creator: Simon Bening.

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Villagers on Their Way to Church; Book of Hours, about 1550. Additional Info: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's landscape achieves a monumentality associated with larger contemporary panel paintings, where the genre of landscape painting was developing along similar lines.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

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HRM24A67_349

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Droits gérés

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41,3Mo (2,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 24,6cm / 4960 x 2910 (300dpi)

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nature exterior outdoors Europe animal tree countryside season agriculture female women woman people male child children job man men farming religious plant plants arts religion candle candles dog dogs book guy occupation Flanders Belgium church color medieval Christianity village rustic location century procession profession Bible literature Biblical labourer labourers miniature concept peasant peasants manuscript prayer book wintry Colour Flemish mediaeval Middle Ages farm hand farmhand farm hands farmhands farm worker farm workers 16th century farmworker farmworkers sixteenth century rural trees agricultural worker book of hours farm labourer illuminated manuscript navvy rural life tempera TGN vellum villager winter outside Candlemas manuscript Simon Bening Bening Simon processional Regionalism villagers Heritage Art agricultural workers farm labourers agricultural labourer Detached leaf recto Tempera colours and gold paint