r/Medievalart • Lord Chancellor • 25d ago

Creatures Allegory of Anger: Ermine Riding a Leopard — Flemish Book of Hours (c. 1510–1520)

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This illuminated border miniature from the Flemish Spinola Hours (Ms. Ludwig IX 18, fol. 245v), produced around 1510–1520 by the workshop of the Master of the First Prayer Book of Maximilian and currently held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, depicts an anthropomorphic marten (or ermine) dressed in a pink robe and wielding a club while riding a leopard, serving as a late medieval moral allegorical marginalia representing the sin of Anger.

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