# Book of Hours for the Use of Rome [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STROZZI, Zanobi]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript, 135 x 93 mm \(each\) ## Commentary Book of Hours for the Use of Rome c. 1445 Manuscript, 135 x 93 mm \(each\) Walters Art Museum, Baltimore This manuscript is one of the most pleasing books of hours to have been made in Florence in the mid-fifteenth century. It contains 278 folios with 17 illuminations by Zanobi Strozzi, which are masterpieces of the genre. The picture shows folios 14v and 15r. The full-page illumination on folio 14v represents the Annunciation. On folio 15r the Nativity is depicted in an initial D. Below, six putti support a quatrefoil with the Adimari coat of arms. The Adimari were a large and prominent Florentine family, and any one of a number of them could have commissioned this book. ## Related artworks - [Book of Hours for the Use of Rome]() - [Book of Hours for the Use of Rome]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Madonna and Child with Angels]() - [Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels]() - [Psalter]() - [Silius Italicus: De bello punico]() - [St Jerome Altarpiece]() - [Sts Cosmas and Damian Saved from Drowning]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()