Orosius master

A medieval illuminator who worked in France in Paris or Avignon around 1400 is known as the Orosius Master . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his illuminations for the Histoires d'Orose, a manuscript that is partly based on the late antique historical work of Orosius . It is now in the National Library of France.

Some experts see the Orosius Master as an artist from Bohemia who had received his training in France and with whom French influence then returned to Prague illumination.

Together with assistants and collaborators, the Orosius master also created the images for a manuscript of the divine state of Augustine from around 1410 in France , which is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . Furthermore, miniatures in the breviary of the French Dauphin Louis de Valois, Duke of Guyenne , are attributed to him, which the master richly painted together with two other miniature painters, the Bedford master and the Boucicaut master . In this work an influence of the painting and composing style of the Limburg brothers can be seen .

The illustration of a fragment of a handwritten medieval geographical map of unknown origin with castles and other motifs in the archive of the Republic of Slovenia (Arhiv Republike Slovenije) is also attributed to the Orosius master, but this could also have been created under Bohemian influence in Poland.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 301
2. ↑ so z. B. John Block Friedman: Northern English books, owners, and makers in the late Middle Ages . Syracuse 1995
3. ^ Philadelphia Museum of Art (The Philip S. Collins Collection), Inv. No. 1945-65-1
4. ↑ Châteauroux, library and collection Médiathèque municipale Équinoxe Orosius-Meister  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , at gebbroedersvanlimburg.nl, German text and illustration  
5. ↑ cf. Nataša Golob: Fragment of Ceškega cestopisa in Orozijev mojster .- In: Vita artis perennis: ob osemdesetletnici akademika Emilijana Cevca (Festschrift Emilijan Cevc). Ljubljana 2000 pp. 219–234 (Slovenian)
6. ↑ Janez Höfler: Še enkrat o tako imenovanem češkem cestopisu v zbirki Arhiva Republike Slovenije (again on the so-called Bohemian road map in the collections of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia). In: Acta historiae artis Slovenica 6 (2001) (Slovenian)