• 4 years ago
“How do you measure dedication?” Barbara Boehm on Simon Bening’s Book of Hours

Book of Hours
by Simon Bening
ca. 1530–35
The Cloisters Collection, 2015
2015.706

http://metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/684184

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http://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/book-of-hours-simon-bening

Production Credits
Director: Christopher Noey
Producer: Sarah Cowan
Editor: Dia Felix
Camera: Dia Felix, Stephanie Wuertz, Sarah Cowan
Production Coordinator: Lisa Rifkind
Music: Austin Fisher
Photography: Peter Zeray
Special thanks to Thomas Vinton

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