The Cornaro Missal

December 6, 2009 - February 28, 2010 | 10:00am - 5:00pm

The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

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In the early 16th century, Cardinal Patriarch Marco Cornaro commissioned the famous illuminated manuscript that has become known as the Cornaro Missal. A missal is a book containing all of the prayers and responses to celebrate the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year. In the early 1600s, the missal was bound in a Roman binding of elaborately tooled leather in a French fanfare-style design. A masterpiece of Italian Renaissance art by an anonymous artist from northern Italy, the missal was later acquired by the Austrian branch of the Rothschild family. Seized by the Nazis on the eve of World War II, the missal was returned to the Rothschilds.

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