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in this 1410s illuminated book of hours, december is for hunting wild boar

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Apparently such things typically have December as slaughtering-of-the-pig? But a boar is so much more Germanically seasonal. I love the decadent flat ultramarines in this -- actually it's cool how little the palette varies from the pigments they clearly used. Ultramarine, yellow ochre, burnt sienna...

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