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The Hours of
Frederick of Aragon has been described as a "particularly accomplished work of art". The full-page miniatures have been pointed out as some of Bourdichon's most delicate work, and the book has been said to contain "what are undoubtedly Bourdichon’s finest miniatures". The miniatures are
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was the first art historian to recognise the miniatures as the work of
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