Medieval Flowers Tie Marvels

Medieval Flowers Tie MarvelsThis elegant blue floral silk tie features a design from a 14th century French medieval Lady's Book of Hours, housed in the Canterbury Cathedral Library in Kent, England. A Book of Hours is a Christian devotional book that was popular in the Middle Ages. It is a type of illuminated manuscript, often richly decorated with illustrations, and is usually designed for laypeople rather than clergy. The name is derived from the practice of recitation of the

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The anniversary offers an occasion to present a number of little-seen masterpieces

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she had shaped the famous Pierpont Morgan Library collection and was a proto-celebrity in New York and the art world

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Herman Hestenburgh spent his life in the harbor town of Hoorn

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intimate works that explored themes present in his better-known paintings