Master of the Woodhull-Haberton Book of Hours

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As the master of the Wodhull-Harberton Hours ( English Master of the Wodhull-Harberton Hours ) is called a Dutch illuminator who worked in Delft in the Netherlands around 1490 . The place of his work is derived from the architectural style elements that he used in his pictures and that are typical of the illumination in Delft of his time.

The not-by-name master of the Wodhull-Harberton Book of Hours got his emergency name from a book of hours he painted and which was in the possession of the book collector and poet Michael Wodhull (1740-1816) in the 18th century . He bought it at an auction in 1781. It was previously owned by Henry Viscount Harberton . It consists of 249 pages and contains eight full-page illustrations painted by the master of the Wodhull-Harberton Book of Hours . The book of hours is made of parchment in a handy format with approximately 20 centimeters high and 13 centimeters wide pages.

The Wodhull-Harberton Hours is a typical example of a work that was created for clients in the context of the Devotio moderna . This Christian humanist movement in the late Middle Ages demanded personal study of the fundamental texts of Christianity as a prerequisite for a personal relationship with God. The motifs of the pictures in the book of hours show this personal relationship by depicting the person who commissioned the book in devotion to the crucified Christ and showing other saints who, as living and participating witnesses, underline the message of some pictures. Wealthy private clients had made Delft a center of book illumination and in addition to the Wodhull-Harberton Hours, the master of the Wodhull-Harberton Hours also contributed miniatures to other similar books of hours. In addition to another book of hours from Delft, pictures in the so-called Manderscheid book of hours and in the so-called Da Costa book of hours are ascribed to him.

The master of the Wodhull-Harberton Book of Hours seems to have been familiar with the style of the important panel painters of his time, such as Rogier van der Weyden, who worked in Brussels, and Hans Memling , who worked in Bruges . Like them, he shows a true-to-detail and lifelike representation that shows the beginning of the Renaissance in painting. There is also an influence of Hugo van der Goes, who worked in Ghent and Brussels , a painter in the Netherlands who is now counted among the main masters of late Gothic and early Renaissance art. It is believed that the master of the Wodhull-Harberton Book of Hours first came into contact with the style of these three painters while studying in the Bruges region.

literature

  • Henri LM Defoer, Anne S. Korteweg, Wilhelmina CM Wüstefeld: The Golden Age of Dutch Manuscript Painting . (Exhibition catalog) New York, Utrecht, Stuttgart 1989, p.?.
  • Antiquariat Heribert Tenschert (Hrsg.): Leuchtendes Mittelalter III, The golden age of Burgundian illumination 1430-1560 . Rotthalmünster 1991, pp. 270-302.
  • Maurits Smeyers; Jan Van der Stock (Ed.): Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts, 1475-1550 . Ghent 1997, p.
  • Bodo Brinkmann: Flemish book illumination at the end of the Burgundian empire: the master of the Dresden prayer book and the miniaturists of his time . Brepols, Turnhout 1997, pp.?.
  • Bodo Brinkmann: The book of hours of the counts of Manderscheid, Gerolstein and Blankenheim. Collection of Renate King IV . Cologne 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Brinkmann: The book of hours of the counts of Manderscheid, Gerolstein and Blankenheim. Collection of Renate King IV . Cologne 2006.
  2. ↑ Bodo Brinkmann: The Flemish book illumination at the end of the Burgundy empire . Volume I. Turnhout 1997, pp. 329-341.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Wodhull-Harberton Book of Hours
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Wodhull-Harberton Hours
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH before 1490
DATE OF DEATH after 1490