Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

378. Hours of the Holy Spirit, fol. 189v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 189v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Pentecost—Within a room, the Dove of the Holy Ghost appears amid rays of light falling on apostles, all kneeling, and the Virgin Mary, who is kneeling at prie-dieu with an open book. All figures are nimbed. In the back of the room, a panel painting depicting the Crucifixion with the Virgin Mary and Evangelist John is on a draped, raised chest.
The scene is framed by an illusionistic architectural border. In the left border, a statue of a male figure, arms crossed and holding a staff in his left hand, appears in a niche