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The Zodiacal Sign of Pisces from The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux

Jean Pucelle (French, active in Paris, ca. 1320–1334)
The Hours of Jeanne d’Évreux, ca. 1324–1328
Made in Paris
Grisaille and tempera on vellum; 3 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (8.9 x 6.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.2)
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Two fishes linked mouth to mouth, the emblem of Pisces, appear at the bottom of the right-hand calendar page, below the holy days and feasts listed in colored inks. (Blue is reserved for high holy days; lesser feasts are recorded in red, brown, or violet.) For more about the medieval conception of this astrological sign, see “February Fill-dyke,” February 8, 2009.

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