THE ANNUNCIATION, THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, and THE PIETA, three miniatures from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
THE ANNUNCIATION, THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, and THE PIETA, three miniatures from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Flanders, doubtless Bruges, second half 15th century] Each leaf 100 x 63mm, each miniature 55 x 35mm. 3 leaves, rectos blank, versos with FULL-PAGE MINIATURES IN THE STYLE OF WILLEM VRELANT FRAMED IN GOLD AND SURROUNDED BY FULL BORDERS of acanthus and semi-naturalistic flora, each with naturalistic birds and hybrid creatures (the Massacre miniature's border very slightly cropped). The present miniatures are by an artist associated with the workshop of Willem Vrelant, one of the most influential illuminators working in Bruges during the second half of the 15th century. There are certain strong stylistic parallels (the elongated figures, their pointillistic eyes and mouths) that link the present artist to a follower of Vrelant's responsible for the illumination in a Book of Hours at the Walters Art Gallery (W.229), but these miniatures are finer, the borders richer and more vivacious, closer in quality, perhaps, to the work of another of Vrelant's followers, the Master of the Vraie cronicque descoce . (3)
THE ANNUNCIATION, THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, and THE PIETA, three miniatures from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
THE ANNUNCIATION, THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS, and THE PIETA, three miniatures from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [Flanders, doubtless Bruges, second half 15th century] Each leaf 100 x 63mm, each miniature 55 x 35mm. 3 leaves, rectos blank, versos with FULL-PAGE MINIATURES IN THE STYLE OF WILLEM VRELANT FRAMED IN GOLD AND SURROUNDED BY FULL BORDERS of acanthus and semi-naturalistic flora, each with naturalistic birds and hybrid creatures (the Massacre miniature's border very slightly cropped). The present miniatures are by an artist associated with the workshop of Willem Vrelant, one of the most influential illuminators working in Bruges during the second half of the 15th century. There are certain strong stylistic parallels (the elongated figures, their pointillistic eyes and mouths) that link the present artist to a follower of Vrelant's responsible for the illumination in a Book of Hours at the Walters Art Gallery (W.229), but these miniatures are finer, the borders richer and more vivacious, closer in quality, perhaps, to the work of another of Vrelant's followers, the Master of the Vraie cronicque descoce . (3)
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