# Book of Hours [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, French]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Manuscript ## Commentary This Book of Hours belonged to Claude Gouffier \(1501-1570\). Responsible for organizing the royal jousts so dear to Henri II, he was a skilled, subtle, and prudent courtier. His family at the Château d'Orion had an art collection which included paintings, drawings, books of hours. The miniature shown here represents the month of August in the Calendar of this Book of Hours. ## Related artworks - [A History of Western Saints]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: De Interpretazione]() - [Aristotle: Works]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Augustinus Hipponensis: Quaestiones et locutiones in Heptateuchum]() - [Beatus of Liébana: Commentary on the Apocalypse]() - [Belleville Breviary]() - [Bible Historiale]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() - [Bible moralisée, part I.]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()