Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

019. MS M.399, fol. 10r

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 10r

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Zodiac sign: Virgo―A calendar page is shown within an illusionistic wood frame. On the right side of the frame is a statue of a male figure within an illusionistic architectural niche. Along the bottom border is a landscape with a stream, flowering bushes, and a fence. Superimposed on the landscape is an illusionistic roundel frame enclosing a female figure, with her left hand on her breast, sitting in a garden enclosed by a brick wall.