St. Hubert

Unknown (Flemish)


Item type:
miniature
Date of creation:
late 15th century
Technique / Medium:
tempera on parchment
School:
Flemish

    Item location

  • Biblioteca Reale (Torino)
    [Museum inv. no.: ms Varia 88 (Book of Hours of Jean of Estoutville)]f. 124r

Description

In a solitary landscape, St. Hubert dismounted from his horse is kneeling before the deer with the cross on his forehead; in the sky, an angel with a scroll. In the frame, among flowers, birds and other animals, two dogs running after a wild boar and a hunter playing the horn.

People as subjects

St. Hubert

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Hunting horn [4138]

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. “Iconografia musicale nei codici miniati delle biblioteche torinesi”, Miscellanea di studi (Istituto per i beni musicali in Piemonte) 6 (2006) 25-45.

RIdIM record id

3281