University of Pittsburgh
Frick Fine Arts Library
Book of Hours
Office of the Dead
University of Pittsburgh
Frick Fine Arts Library
Book of Hours
Office of the Dead
Usually the miniature preceding the Office of
the Dead depicts the process of praying the Office, with three or four
monks standing around a lectern in the chapel near a draped coffin.
However in the Frick Book of Hours, that section opens with an image of
the Dance of Death in which we see two skeletal figures leading a Pope
in front with the tiara, an emperor in the pointed crown, a king, a queen,
a cardinal wearing a red hat, followed by a group of individuals.
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Copyright: Images, Frick Fine
Arts Library, University of Pittsburgh; Text, Susan Blackman and Judith
Golden. Created by Judith Golden. Questions
or comments may be addressed to Judith Golden at jkgst7+@pitt.edu
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