MINIATURIST, Flemish
(active 1477-1482 in Bruges)

The Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Emperor Maximilian

c. 1480
Manuscript (Hs. 78 B 12), 105 x 73 mm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The miniature on folio 290v accompanies the Office of the Dead and depicts the Three Living and the Three Dead. The image has been thought to allude to Mary of Burgundy's fatal horse riding accident on 27 March 1482. However, this interpretation is debated.