Master of the Guémadeuc Book of Hours

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A medieval illuminator is known in art history as the master of the Guémadeuc book of hours . At the end of the 15th century he was probably active in Lyon , which, alongside the capital of the French Kingdom of Paris, had developed into a center of illumination in the provinces. The unnamed certainly known artist is after him around 1495 for the Breton family Guémadeuc frescoed Hours named . Members of this family can be found in the court of Queen Anne de Bretagne , who stayed in Lyon several times around 1500. Possibly the painter himself came to the city as a traveling artist from the surroundings of this court and with clients from the circle around the queen. Because of the portrayal of the queen's namesake, it is also assumed that the book could have come into the family's possession as a gift.

In research, the master of the Guémadeuc Book of Hours is usually identified with the master of Antoine de Roche , an illuminator who illuminated a missal on behalf of Antoine de Roche, Grand Prior of La Charité-sur-Loire . This master is said to be the Italian painter Guido Mazzoni from Modena.

Even for a work of its kind, the Guémadeuc's book of hours is embellished with an extraordinarily large number of pictures. A total of 334 images can be found on the 122 pages of the handy parchment manuscript. In terms of art history, it is also important that his painter did not fall back on the usual depiction motifs and sequences, but was able to develop an independent method of representation. He created all the illuminations in the Book of Hours, with the exception of a miniature of a Gregory mass , which probably came from the workshop of the master of Guillaume Lambert .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paris National Library, Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS lat. 881

literature

  • H. Tenschert (Ed.): The Guémadeuc Hours. Complete facsimile edition of the manuscript in its original format . Beaver mill 2000
  • E. König: The Guémadeuc Hours, the painter of Antoine de Roche and Guido Mazzoni from Modena . Commentary on the facsimile edition. (Illuminations. Studies and monographs). Ramsen and Rotthalmünster 2001
  • E. Burin: Manuscript Illumination in Lyons 1473-1530 . Turnhout 2001
  • N. Zenker: Review of: Elizabeth Burin: Manuscript Illumination in Lyons 1473-1530. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers NV 2001 . In: Kunstform 4 (2003), no.03