Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Raising of the Cross
Cleveland Museum of Art

Leaf from a Book of Hours: The Raising of the Cross

c. 1510–20

tempera and liquid gold on vellum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Books of hours were devotional books popular in the Middle Ages and meant for laypeople, or those not in the clergy.

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