Master of the Guy de Laval

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The medieval illuminator who painted Guy de Laval's Book of Hours around 1427 is referred to as the Master of Guy de Laval or Guise Master ( Fr. Maître de Guy de Laval, Maître de Guise) . The artist, unknown by name, was probably active in western France and had painted the book for the French nobleman Guy XIV. De Laval , Count of Laval , vassal of the Duke of Brittany and the King of France. The choice of color and style of painting by the master of Guy de Laval are typical of the French book illumination of his time. Since the book contains a rhymed biography of Saint Margaret, it can be assumed that the book was possibly originally intended as a gift to Marguerite, the Guy's first fiancée, who however died in 1427 and the marriage was not concluded.

The master of Guy de Laval is said to have worked with the Spitz master and master of Harvard Hannibal in a book of hours that is now called Spitz Hours after a modern owner and which is stylistically close to the work of the Limbourg brothers . The master of Guy de Laval contributed two of the 22 pictures. The three illuminators are said to have worked together on some other works as well.

literature

  • Gabriele Bartz: Le Maître de Guy de Laval, alias Maître de Guise. In: Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye (Hrsg.): La création artistique en France autour de 1400. Actes du colloque international École du Louvre etc. juillet 2004, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-904187-19-7 .
  • Gabriele Bartz: The Book of Hours of Guy de Laval, Collection Renate König 1st series Kolumba (vol. 16). Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-931326-42-X .
  • Joachim M. Plotzek: Ars vivendi - Ars moriendi. The art of living - The art of dying. The Renate König manuscript collection. Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7774-9180-2 . (Catalog for the exhibition in the Archbishop's Diocesan Museum in Cologne)
  • Book of hours of Guy de Laval, Western France . Interview Ulrike Surmann with Brigitt Schippers from domradio. December 25, 2010, domradio
  • Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert, Eberhard König (Ed.): Shining Middle Ages. V. Psalter and Book of Hours in France from the 13th to the 16th centuries. Catalog XXX. Rotthalmünster 1993, OCLC 769867053 .
  • Gregory T. Clark: The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours. Getty Museum Studies on Art, Los Angeles 2003, ISBN 0-89236-712-1 .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Guy de Laval
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guise master; Maître de Guy de Laval (French)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century