ID: 700007309 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007309	Record Type: Movable Work
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The Temperate and the Intemperate (illumination (painting); Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 148...; about 1475 - 1480; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 91.MS.81.recto)

Note: The Memorable Deeds and Sayings of the Romans, a compilation of stories about ancient customs and heroes written in the first century CE by Valerius Maximus, was widely used in the Middle Ages as a textbook for rhetoric. The museum's cutting comes from a French translation of the original Latin text made for Jan Crabbe, abbot of the Cistercian Abbey at Duinen, south of Bruges. This large miniature appeared at the beginning of book two, Concerning Morals and Customs. In a spacious dining hall, Valerius, dressed in blue on the left, instructs the Emperor Tiberius, to whom he dedicated his book, on the value of temperance. Valerius points out the joyous and intemperate peasants at the front table, who cavort wildly, drink, fall down, and sleep. In contrast, the nobles in the back are models of temperance: evenly spaced at the orderly table, their bodies rigid, they eat with great sobriety. Through this contrast the illuminator suggested that nobles are inherently more temperate, an interpretation that does not derive from the text. Yet in the hands of the witty Master of the Dresden Prayer Book, the bad example of the pleasure-loving peasants is easily the more endearing one.

Titles:

The Temperate and the Intemperate (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Temperate and the Intemperate: Miniature from Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits mémorables des romains, translation by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse of Facta et dicta memorabilia (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

illumination (painting) [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>)

detached leaf [300379890]

..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

Classifications:

manuscripts (preferred)

Creation Date: about 1475 - 1480

Creator Display:

Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Flemish, active about 1480 - 1515) (Flemish Illuminator) [preferred,JPGM]

Master of the Dresden Prayerbook (Netherlandish illuminator and engraver, active ca.1460-1520) Qualifier: undetermined Extent: undetermined [500018916]

Locations:

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: 91.MS.81.recto

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

Display Materials: Tempera colors and ink 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)

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

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

Dimensions: Leaf [cutting]: 17.5 x 19.4 cm (6 7/8 x 7 5/8 in.); Justification: 28.5 x 20.2 cm (11 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)

Cultures:

Flemish (preferred)

General Subject:

literary (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Factorum ac dictorum memorabilium [901000818]
	.....((Literary works: History, Biographies, Named written and performed works, Literature and Performing Arts)) (ICON)

	eating (physical and mental activities) [300375120]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	Valerius Maximus (Roman historian, active 17-31 CE) [500355327]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	Tiberius (Roman emperor, 42 BCE-37 CE) [500115693]
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	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)

	nobles (nobility) [300025942]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, social classes, <social classes by specific type>, upper class, aristocracy (social class)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

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

............... Cutting from Valerius Maximus

Sources and Contributors:
The Temperate and the Intemperate	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Temperate and the Intemperate: Miniature from Valerius Maximus, Faits et dits mémorables des romains, translation by Simon de Hesdin and Nicolas de Gonesse of Facta et dicta memorabilia	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

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

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