Master of the privileges of Ghent and Flanders

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Master of the Privileges of Ghent and Flanders: The Submission of the Citizens of Ghent. Miniature, 15th century

As a master of the privileges of Ghent and Flanders one is Flemish illuminators referred, that of 1440 to 1460 worked in Flanders. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from the 15 magnificent miniatures that he contributed to a manuscript that Philip the Good had created. This contains the description of the privileges and statutes of the city of Ghent and the country of Flanders after their defeat by Philip in 1453. It is now in the Austrian National Library in Vienna.

Several other works are ascribed to the master, his environment or his workshop; his work is an important example of the Flemish book illumination of his time.

literature

  • Friedrich Winkler : The Flemish book illumination of the XV. and XVI. Century. Artists and works from the van Eyck brothers to Simon Bening . Leipzig 1925
  • Gregory Clark: Made in Flanders: The Master of the Ghent Privileges and Manuscript Painting in the Time of Philip the Good . Turnhout 2002
  • Master of the Priviledges of Ghent and Flanders . In: Gordon Campbell (Ed.): The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art . Online version accessed October 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Winkler: The Flemish book illumination of the XV. and XVI. Century. Artists and works from the van Eyck brothers to Simon Bening . Leipzig 1925
  2. ↑ Austrian National Library Codex 2583
personal data
SURNAME Master of the privileges of Ghent and Flanders
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century