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Book of Hours
Belgium, Brussels, ca. 1540
MS M.696 fol. 66v

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Apollonia of Alexandria, nimbed, wearing headdress and jewelled diadem, stands holding tooth in pincers in right hand and open book with left hand. Behind her is curtain, pulled to right to reveal distant landscape with building.
Text and miniature enclosed in classicizing architectural frame.



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