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Simon Bening: Villagers on Their Way to Church  wikidata:Q111822239 reasonator:Q111822239
Artist
Simon Bening  (circa 1483/1484–1561)  wikidata:Q928015
 
Simon Bening
Alternative names
Simon Bering; Simão Bening; Simon Benning; Simon Beninc; Simon Benig
Description Southern Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator
Date of birth/death circa 1483-1484 6 November 1561 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Ghent Bruges
Work location
Ghent, Bruges (1508-1561)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q928015

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Title
Villagers on Their Way to Church
Object type Detached leaf
Description

Simon Bening Flemish, probably Bruges, about 1550 Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment 2 3/16 x 3 3/4 in. MS. 50, RECTO

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.
Date about 1550
Medium Tempera colors and gold paint on parchment
Dimensions height: 56 mm (2.20 in); width: 96 mm (3.77 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,56U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,96U174789
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
lido.getty.edu-gm-obj1876
Place of creation United States of America Edit this at Wikidata
Notes More info at museum site
References Art in the Christian Tradition ID: 57932 Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer cwEQT2I5tUKZHA at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level

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