ID: 700002336 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002336	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Villagers on Their Way to Church (Illumination (visual work); Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561) (Flemish Illuminat...; about 1550; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 93.MS.19.recto; Ms. 50, recto)

Note: As the local parish church prepares for services, villagers and rural peasants make their way down the path. In the distance, fields, gently rolling hills, buildings, and groves of trees give shape to the landscape. The candlelit procession inside the church, as well as the candles held by the approaching villagers, suggest the celebration of Candlemas, a church holiday observed the second of February. An earlier owner probably cut the miniature from the lower border of the calendar of a book of hours. Despite its small size, Bening's landscape achieves a monumentality associated with larger contemporary panel paintings, where the genre of landscape painting was developing along similar lines.

Titles:

Villagers on Their Way to Church (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Book of Hours (C,U,VL,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

Illumination (visual work) [300264522] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, paintings (visual works), <paintings by location or context>)

cutting (partial work) [300403972]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by state>)

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1550

Creator Display:

Simon Bening (Flemish, about 1483 - 1561) (Flemish Illuminator) [preferred,JPGM]

Bening, Simon (Flemish illuminator, ca. 1483 - 1561) [500115179]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Brugge [7007867] West-Vlaanderen (province), Flanders (region (administrative division)), Belgium (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 93.MS.19.recto; Ms. 50, recto

Display Materials: Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment

	tempera [300015062]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gilt paint [300343596]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, metallic paint)

	parchment (animal material) [300011851]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, animal material, processed animal material)

Dimensions: Leaf [cutting]: 5.6 x 9.6 cm (2 3/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

religion and mythology (preferred)

genre

Specific Subjects:

	peasants [300230852]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in agriculture or natural resource occupations>, <people in agriculture>, farmers (people in agriculture)) (AAT)

	Candlemas [300264400]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, holidays, religious holidays, Christian holidays) (AAT)

	villages [300008372]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name), inhabited places, <settlements by form>) (AAT)

	church (building) [300007466]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, ceremonial structures, religious structures, religious buildings) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

............... Calendar Miniatures from a Book of Hours

Sources and Contributors:
Villagers on Their Way to Church	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Book of Hours	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [VP,JPGM]

....................... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)