Master of Claude de France

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As Master of Claude de France ( Engl. Master of Claude de France), the illuminator referred to the around 1517 a prayer book for personal use of Claude de France has painted. The small-format, barely palm-sized book was commissioned on the occasion of her coronation as Queen of France and was probably created in Tours.

The prayer book of Claude de France is an illuminated manuscript with prayers in Latin on 52 pages and is illuminated with 132 pictures with scenes from the life and passion of Christ and from legends of the saints. Three of the sides are adorned with the queen's coat of arms. All sides are richly gilded. The prayer book is now in the possession of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.

The master of Claude de France may have been a student of Jean Poyer . This illuminator had his workshop in Tours and around 1495 worked for Anne de Bretagne , Claude's mother. A connection to the workshop of other masters in Tours can also be seen in the master’s workshop, especially to the Rosenwald masters, masters of the Getty epistles and Doheny masters summarized under “1520 workshop” .

The master of Claude de France worked in France at the beginning of the Renaissance and during the period of the spread of the printing press . His artistically and technically superior work is one of the last and outstanding book illuminations for a splendid example of book illumination. It shows that court commissioners still preferred this traditional form of the book until it was soon replaced by printed and illustrated books.

In addition to the prayer book of Claude de France, the master of Claude de France also painted in the accompanying book of hours , which is now in private hands. A dozen other preserved works are assigned to him, including the prayer book of Renée de Valois , the sister of Claude de France.

Before Claude de France received the prayer book, she used her children's prayer book, the primer of Claude de France , another example of an illuminated manuscript of recognized beauty and elegance at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

The prayer book of Claude de France was donated to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1987 from the property of the son of the art dealer Paul Rosenberg . On the opening page of the manuscript there is an ex-libris painted by Pablo Picasso . He had created this modern book mark to mark the book as the property of Paul Rosenberg, when this well-known art patron strongly supported Picasso's work with his gallery.

See also

literature

  • The prayer book of Claude de France. Morgan Library & Museum New York MS M. 1166. = The Prayer Book of Claude de France. Facsimile edition. 2 volumes (facsimile volume and Roger S. Wieck: commentary on the facsimile edition. ). Quaternio-Verlag, Lucerne 2009–2010, ISBN 978-3-905924-00-8 .

Web links

Online exhibition of the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York (accessed February 2011):

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Charles Sterling: The Master of Claude, Queen of France. A Newly Defined Miniaturist (= Rare Books Monograph Series. Vol. 5, ZDB -ID 1102147-0 ). Kraus, New York NY 1975.
  2. ^ Pierpont Morgan Library inventory MS M. 1166
  3. ^ Mara Hofmann: Jean Poyer. The complete works (= Ars nova. Vol. 7). Brepols, Turnhout 2004, ISBN 2-503-52193-2 .
  4. ↑ 1520s The Hours Workshop. In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002 (online edition).
personal data
SURNAME Master of Claude de France
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Queen Claude de France; Master of Claude of France
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century