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Together with his wife Queen Isabella I of Castile, Ferdinand II of Aragon co-ruled Spain as its de facto king while reigning over an empire stretching across the Mediterranean from the shores of Iberia to the Italian Peninsula and most of the islands in between as well as serving as the Grandmaster of four Spanish military orders. Largely regarded as the founder of the Spanish Empire, he was naturally a man of great power and wealth who did much to promote education in Spain. Therefore, it is no surprise that he would have owned such a splendid specimen of Italian #Renaissance #illumination as this.
Created ca. 1500–10 by a team of artists trained in Rome, the #manuscript contains an ecclesiastical calendar, prayers, Psalms, canticles, Lauds, and sequences of the Holy Evangelists. 81 magnificent #miniatures, including 4 on purple-dyed pages, as well as numerous decorative initials, friezes, elaborate frames with vases, fruits, precious stones, adorn the manuscript. Between its rich color palette, generous application of gold, and incredible naturalistic and graceful human figures, the Book of Hours of Ferdinand II of Aragon is a true treasure of illumination.

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