Loyset Liédet

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Loyset Liédet: The Byzantine Emperor greets Roussillon and Martel, miniature, Getty Museum
The execution of Olivier IV. De Clisson

Loyset Liédet (* around 1420 probably in Hesdin ; † after 1484 in Lille ) was a French-Flemish scribe, painter and illuminator .

Life

Loyset Liédet initially worked for the Dukes of Burgundy , Philip the Good and his son Charles the Bold . A two-volume copy of a historical text contains his earliest known work as an illuminator, which the scribe probably recorded in his parents' house in 1454 in Hesdin (France). His early work shows the influence of the French painter and illuminator Simon Marmion , who was employed at the Burgundian court.

Around 1468 Liédet moved to the ducal royal seat and commercial center of Bruges in Flanders , where he became a member of the Schreibergilde in 1469. He worked in the direct vicinity of such well-known artists as Petrus Christ , who had already taken over the workshop of Jan van Eyck in 1441 , and of Hans Memling , who had settled in the city around 1465. Liédet worked particularly closely with the writer and organizer David Aubert .

Liédet's mature style shows bright, almost garish colors and stiff limbs with often heavily shaded surfaces. The characters depicted are referred to as "lanky" or "hacked". In Bruges he worked with David Aubert .

Numerous documents testify to Liédet's career in Bruges, where he received money for miniatures in at least fifteen manuscripts between 1468 and 1472. Liédet dedicated a large part of his work around 1470 to coloring manuscripts for Charles the Bold, within two years he produced over 400 miniatures for him. He was among the last of a generation of Flemish Illuminati who worked almost exclusively on behalf of the members of the Burgundian court instead of producing manuscripts for sale on the open market.

Works (selection)

He left numerous miniatures in manuscripts:

  • Jean Froissart (Author): Chroniques de France, 4 volumes, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fonds français ms. 2643 to ms. 2646 Digitized by the BNF of book I (made for Ludwig von Gruuthuse )
  • 1468 to 1472: 123 miniatures on David Aubert, Histoire de Charles Martel . It consists of four volumes with 4000 pages, Royal Library, Brussels, 101 miniatures have survived, fifteen sheets of which were removed around 1700, today in the Getty Museum.

Web links

Commons : Loyset Liédet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ D. Vanwijnsberghe, 'Marketing Books for Burghers; Jean Markant's Activity in Tournai, Lille and Bruges', Flemish Manuscript Painting in Context, E. Morrison and T. Kren eds, 2006, p. 143
  2. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Getty Museum website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.getty.edu
  3. ↑ Stub on answers.com (English)
  4. ↑ Article in Larousse (French)
  5. ↑ Short biography ( Memento of the original from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Getty Museum website @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.getty.edu
personal data
SURNAME Liédet, Loyset
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Flemish painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH unsure: Hesdin
DATE OF DEATH after 1484
Place of death Lille