Master of the black eyes
As masters of the black eyes ( Dutch Zwarte-ogen-meesters ) are a number of late medieval illuminators who were active in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, especially in the west of the Netherlands, the county of Holland . The artists not known by name are named after a style element they share, dark shadows with which they emphasize the eyes of their figures. Above all, they created illuminated books of hours and operated a leading book production of their time. Work by members of the group was spread as far as England.
Over 70 manuscripts by the masters of the black eyes are still preserved today. The work is at the end of the heyday of Dutch book illumination.
literature
- HLM Defoer, AS Korteweg, WCM Wüstefeld: The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting (exhibition catalog Utrecht, Rijksmuseum Het Cathaijne-convent and New York, Pierpont Morgan Library). Stuttgart 1989.
- Klara H. Broekhuijsen-Kruijer: De zwarte-ogen-meesters. Een onderzoek naar de stijl en iconografie van een groep Noordnederlandse miniaturists rond 1500 . (Dissertation, self-published) Amsterdam 1997
- Nora Koldehoff, Stefan Koldehoff: Who did van Gogh give his ear to? Everything you don't know about art . Frankfurt am Main 2007
- Klara H. Broekhuijsen: The Masters of the Dark Eyes. Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland . Turnhout 2009
Web links
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