Cleveland Museum of Art
The Nativity: Leaf from a Book of Hours (3 of 6 Excised Leaves)
Henri d'Orquevaulx (French) · c. 1420–30
The popularity of books of hours lasted until around the 1550s, when the German priest Martin Luther, in his attempts to reform the Catholic Church, declared them full of “un-Christian tomfoolery,” and they fell out of favor.
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