Master of Harvard Hannibal
As Master of the Harvard Hannibal ( Engl. Master of the Harvard Hannibal ), a medieval designated book artist who from 1415 to 1440 of about in France , probably first in Paris , worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from a single picture in a manuscript depicting Hannibal 's coronation . The image is contained in this copy of a French translation of a work by Livy , now in the possession of Harvard University . The copy is a volume of a two-volume work, the complete coloring of which is attributed to the Boucicaut master and the Bedford master .
The master of Harvard Hannibal, to whom a few pictures in other works are assigned, is stylistically very close to the Boucicaut master . The influence of the Limburg Brothers can also be felt in his work and may have been conveyed through the painter of the Spitz Book of Hours, one of the few real Parisian successors of the Brothers.
Works
- Coronation of Hannibal . Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32
In addition to the eponymous picture, contributions to the following works are attributed to the master of Harvard Hannibal :
- Boccaccio Des Cleres et Nobles Femmes , Paris around 1415. Lisbon, Fundus Gulbenkian, MS. LA 143
- Book of Hours, Paris around 1415 ( New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS. M. 455 ), Paris around 1415
- Book of Hours, Paris around 1420. ( Spitz Hours, Horae ad usum Romanum, Los Angeles, Getty Museum, MS 57 , 94.ML.26)
- Royal Alexander, (Alexander novel), Paris around 1440 ( London, British Library, Royal MS. 20 B XX )
- Book of Hours, Paris around 1440. ( Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS. Liturg. 100 )
The master of Harvard Hannibal worked together with the Spitz master and master of Guy de Laval in the book of hours, which is now called “Spitz Hours” after a modern owner and which is stylistically similar to the work of the Limburg brothers . The master of Harvard Hannibal only contributed two miniatures, namely the visitation to the lauds of the Marienoffizium and probably also the offering to the Non, which was prepared by the Spitz master and in some cases also painted.
literature
- Millard Meiss : The “De Lévis Hours” and the Bedford Workshop 1972
- Millard Meiss et al. a .: French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry, The Boucicaut Master . London 1968
- Eberhard König: French illumination around 1450: the Jouvenel painter, the painter of the Geneva Boccaccio and the beginnings of Jean Fouquet . Berlin 1982
- '' Master of the Harvard Hannibal ''. In: Oxford Grove Art. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002
- Gregory T. Clark: The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours (Getty Museum Studies on Art). Los Angeles 2003
Remarks
- ↑ Millard Meiss et al. a .: French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry, The Boucicaut Master . London 1968
- ^ Harvard University, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32
- ↑ Clark 2003 with a monograph on the book
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master of Harvard Hannibal |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval illuminator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th century or 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century |