Master of Jean Mansel

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As a master of Jean Mansel or Mansel Master and Master of Mansel is illuminators referred to the 1,467 copies of the Fleur des histories , a text of the Burgundian author Jean Mansel , has painted. The painter, who is not known by name , created the majority of the 65 pictures in two of the three volumes of this copy. The text for which the master painted it is an extensive world history from around 1440, from the creation of the earth to the reign of Charles VI.

A total of 53 copies of the Fleur des histories have been preserved. The master of Jean Mansel is named after his copy in the monastery library of the Vienna Schottenstift (Cod. Scot. 167 (139) and Cod. Scot. 168 (140)).

The master of Jean Mansel also illuminated an edition of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio , on which he worked around 1440 together with the master of Guillebert von Metz . He is also credited with a book of hours from around 1450 owned by the Burgundian nobleman Antoine de Crèvecoeur. He is said to have colored it in with an assistant, who may have been Simon Marmion . He was an illuminator who worked in Valenciennes , but the collaboration between the two artists remains controversial.

The pictures of the master of Jean Mansel indicate the beginning of a synthesis of the Flemish-Dutch style, which was still leading at the time, with the northern French school and influences from Parisian illumination.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Master of Jean Mansel, Mansel Master . In: Erwin Panofsky (editor Jochen Sander and others): Old Dutch painting - your origin and essence . Ostfildern 2001, Chapter II, Note 39
  2. ^ Paris, Bibl. De l'Arsenal. MS. 5070
  3. ↑ Heures d'Antoine de Crèvecoeur, Leeds University Library Brotherton Collection, MS 4

literature

  • Neil Ker : Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries, III - Lampeter - Oxford . Oxford, 1983
  • Thomas Kren, Scot McKendrick: Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe . Los Angeles, 2003
  • Marc Gil; Du Maître du Mansel au Maître de Rambures: Le milieu des peintres et des enlumineurs de Picardie, approx. 1440-1480 (unpublished dissertation from the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne), Paris 1999
  • Marc Gil: D'Italie du nord en Artois, le portrait de saint Bernardin de Sienne des Heures d'Antoine de Crèvecoeur, verse 1450–55: Leeds, University Library, The Brotherton Collection, Ms. 4 . In: Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Anne S. Lorteweg (Eds.): Tributes in Honor of James H. Marrow. Studies in Painting and Manuscript Illumination of the Late Middle Ages and Northern Renaissance . London 2006, pp. 207-218