The subject of Anne D. Hedeman’s excellent book is a small group of fifteenth-century manuscripts, rich and idiosyncratic in both conception and execution, of the Dialogues written by Pierre Salmon to [...] Read More
14th and 15th Centuries
Made in Flanders. The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Southern Netherlands in the Time of Philip the Good
The Ghent Privileges Master (fl. 1440-60) was first noticed by Friedrich Winkler in connection with the manuscript in Vienna (cod. 2583). Clark assembles an oeuvre for this artist and his successor, [...] Read More
The Hours of Isabel La Católica. The Facsimile Edition
id-fifteenth-century Flemish manuscript illumination needs more focused studies such as this one. Unfortunately it is not available separately from the facsimile, although the illustration is adequate [...] Read More
L’âge d’or du manuscrit à peintures en France au temps de Charles VI et Les Heures du Maréchal Boucicaut
Albert Châtelet’s handsome, slip-cased treatment of one of the richest eras of French manuscript painting, the several decades around 1400 that included the Très riches Heures, is divided neatly into [...] Read More
Four Books on Rogier van der Weyden
Dirk De Vos, Rogier van der Weyden. The Complete Works.Antwerp:Ê Mercatorfonds; New York: Abrams, 1999. 445 pp, 500 illus., 350 in col. ISBN 0-8109-6390-6. Albert Châtelet, Rogier van der Weyden [...] Read More
Leven na de dood. Gedenken in de late Middeleeuwen
In 1994, Truus van Bueren started an investigation into 'Care for the here and the hereafter: Commemorative representations in the (arch)bishopric of Utrecht in the late Middle Ages'. The exhibition [...] Read More