Master of Dunois

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Jean d'Orléans , excerpt from a miniature in the Jean d'Orléans Book of Hours, designed by the master of Dunois
Book of Hours of Simon de Varie - KB 74 G37 , folio 053r

The so-called Master of Dunois (or Dunois Master ) was a French illuminator who worked in Paris from around 1430 . Since his name remains unknown, he is named with an emergency name after the book of hours he illustrated for Count Jean d'Orléans, comte de Dunois .

Art style

The master of Dunoi is a representative of the realistic style of Gothic book illumination in France. It emerged from the Bedford master's workshop in Paris. He adopted their style and further developed it, influenced by the work of the Limburg brothers, such as the miniatures for Très Riches Heures . The master is also influenced by the work of the Dutch painter Jan van Eyck , e.g. B. his Madonna of Rolin .

Works (selection)

  • Book of Hours by Jean de Dunois, London, British Library
  • Book of hours "Livre d'heures selon l'usage de Paris", Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France.

literature

  • E. König, H. Tenschert: (Ed.) Books of Hours from Paris and the French Regions in the 15th and 16th Centuries - Volume 6 from the Shining Middle Ages series . Catalog Antiquariat H. Tenschert 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sz BAH van Buren: The reception of the Rolin Madonna by Jan van Eyck's contemporaries . In: C. Kruse, F. Thürlemann : Portrait, Landscape, Interior Jan van Eyck's Rolin-Madonna in an aesthetic context . Fool 1999 p. 147 ff.
  2. ^ London, British Library Yates Thompson 3, f. 162
  3. ↑ "Detailed record for Yates Thompson 3" : In: British Library: "Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts" (accessed September 9, 2009 - English)
  4. ^ Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Smaf 81-28
  5. ↑ Jean-Baptiste Lebigue: "Livre d'heures selon l'usage de Paris" , In: Catalog de manuscrits liturgiques médiévaux et modern , Jean-Baptiste Lebigue, B. Suc, éds, Orléans: Institut de recherche et d'histoire des texts, 2006-2009. (French)
personal data
SURNAME Master of Dunois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dunois Master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1430
DATE OF DEATH after 1450