Master Jacob IV of Scotland

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'Master Jacob IV of Scotland': The Root Jesse , from the Spinola Book of Hours, Flanders, around 1500

As Master of James IV. Of Scotland ( Engl. Master of James IV of Scotland) or Jacob champion the well is Flemish illuminators designated, the 1500 portrait of James IV. Of Scotland has painted for one side of a prayer book. It shows this King of Scotland with his namesake, Saint James the Elder . In the background, the patron saint of Scotland, the Apostle Andrew and the king's coat of arms and motto can be seen on an altarpiece . The portrait is part of the prayer book of Jacob IV of Scotland and his wife Margaret Tudor , which was created in Ghent or Bruges , and the painting is one of the highlights of the Ghent-Bruges school of illumination.

The prayer book is now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna. It consists of more than 490 additional pages , some of which are complex and mostly illuminated by other artists . However, a portrait of Margaret Tudor found in the book is ascribed to the master himself, even if the color tones of this picture are a little softer than the portrait of James IV. Two other miniatures in the book are probably also from the master.

The painter of the portrait of James was originally identified with the painters Simon Bening or Gerard Horenbout . He was identified with the latter as it is known that the master Jacob IV of Scotland had also created some panel paintings. Today, after further research, the master is mostly recognized as an independent personality. His creative period is said to have been more than 40 years. In addition to his own magnificent illuminations, his larger, very active workshop is said to have created some of the most important book illuminations of his time. The master and his collaborators probably contributed pictures, together with other important illuminators, to works such as the Spinola Book of Hours from around 1500 or the Book of Hours of Isabella la Catolica from around 1460 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ page (fol.) 24v
  2. ^ Austrian National Library, Codex Vindobonensis 1897
  3. ↑ page (fol) 243v
  4. ^ Paul Durrieu: L'enlumineur flamand Simon Bening . In: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres : Comptes rendus des séances . Edition Picard, Paris 1910, pp. 162–170
  5. ^ Friedrich Winkler: Newly discovered Old Dutch II. Gerard Horenbout . In: Pantheon , 31 (1943). Pp. 261-271
  6. ↑ see also Duncan Macmillan: Scottish Art 1460-1990 . Mainstream Publ., Edinburgh 1990, ISBN 1-85158-251-7 , pp. 24-27
  7. ^ J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles): Ms. Ludwig IX 18
  8. ^ British Museum : Add. Mss. 18851
  9. ↑ Janet Backhouse: The Isabella Breviary . The British Library, London 1993, ISBN 0-7123-0269-7

literature

  1. The facsimile (main volume). 1987
  2. Franz Unterkircher (Ed.): Commentary volume . 1987.
  • Master of James IV of Scotland . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art . University Press, Oxford 2002.
  • Thomas Kren, Scot McKendrick (Eds.): Illuminating the Renaissance. The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe . J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 2003, ISBN 0-89236-703-2 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, June 17 to September 7, 2003).
  • Michaela Krieger: Style-critical reflections on Gerard Horenbout and the Master of Jacob IV of Scotland . Dissertation, University of Salzburg 2004 (unpublished).
  • Michaela Krieger: On the Jacob's Master's early work . In: Codices Manuscripti. Zeitschrift für Handschriftkunde , Vol. 48/49 (2004), pp. 89-99 and pp. 85-90.
  • Michaela Krieger: The Master of Jacob IV of Scotland, Gerard Horenbout and the Sforza Hours . In: Codices Manuscripti. Journal of Handwriting , Vol. 59 (2007).