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The Zodiacal Sign of Aries 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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A ram, the emblem for the zodiacal sign of Aries, nibbles at a spray of foliage. For more information about the conception of Aries in medieval astrology, see the image description for this sign in “Marching Out,” March 9, 2009.

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