Brevario grimani 03

3 February: Winter scene This is the scene,famous for the pre...Breughelian crudity ofthe child yellowingthe snow with his urine, which Marcantonio Michiel admired in the early sixteenth century. On the left a woman is spinning and a man blowing on his hands in the warm, smoky interior ofa wattle and...daub hut with a lean...to hen...house against one wall. On the right are a dove cote and a flock ofsheep huddling in the fold. The figure of the little man trudging up to the mill with his donkey laden with corn is derived from a motif of Jacopo Avanzi's, in the church of S. Antonio in Padua, via the February scene by the Limbourg brothers in the Tres Riches Heures ofthe Duc de Berry. (F. 2V)

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Artist: grimani

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