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The Virgin Aracoeli — The Limbourg Brothers
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The Virgin Aracoeli

Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416)
Date 1405–1408/9
Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
Subject The Book of Hours
Season Advent, Ordinary Time
Master 3,689 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters · 54.1.1a, b

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416)
Date 1405–1408/9
Medium Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum
Dimensions 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm)
Holding The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters · 54.1.1a, b

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source DP313153.jpg
Master 3,689 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting

Sizes

sheet 8×10 in · image 7.4×10 in · archival margin · 369 dpi
sheet 11×14 in · image 10.3×14 in · archival margin · 264 dpi

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About this painting

One vision, split across two quarter-page pictures. Upper left, the Virgin and Child appear on a crescent moon held up by seraphim: the Aracoeli, the altar of heaven. At lower right the emperor Augustus kneels, and the Tiburtine sibyl's gesture directs his gaze to the vision above. The Met's commentary reads the pair as a single legendary vision shown to the Roman emperor, prophesying the birth of Christ, and places it at O Intemerata, one of the important prayers to the Virgin in a book of hours. Follow the sibyl's hand from the kneeling emperor up to the Child.

Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures, folio 26v; read 2026-09-24

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Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 3,689 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.