Author: Brinkmann, Bodo.
Title: Die flämische Buchmalerei am Ende des Burgunderreichs. Der Meister des Dresdener Gebetbuchs und die Miniaturisten seiner Zeit. [Complete two volume set].
Description: [Turnhout], Brepol, [1997 (= 1998)]. 2 vols. 441,29,[1] pp. 10 b./w. text-ills & 367 col. & b./w. ills on plts. Orig. uniform hardcovers (black cloth with gilt lettering on spines), d./j. 4to. (Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval an Renaissance Northern Painting and Illuminations). Complete set of two volumes: [Vol. I:] Textband; [Vol. II:] Tafelband. - - The present publication offers the first comprehensive survey of manuscript illumination in Flanders during a period of rapid and exciting transition: the reign of Charles the Bold and the time following his death until c.1530. This is the area of the so-called Ghent-Bruges School when illuminators set out to develop a completely new aesthetic approach to the painted page. The author traces the origins of this development and demonstrates how it is rooted in historical and economical changes of the period. He does so by investigating in detail the careers of half a dozen illuminators, the most prolific figure among them the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook. Being long since recognized as one of the inventors of genre painting on the basis of his remarkable sense for psychological observation, the present study identifies him as a great landscape painter, too. In more than ten years of research the author has been able to enlarge the corpus of works attributable to the Dresden Master from 20 to 61. Among the newly discovered items are more than a dozen dated or datable works, which for the first time allow to establish a sound chronology of his oeuvre. Thus, in addition to reconstructing the biographies of several major artists and presenting ideas about the market for and the production of manuscripts in Flanders, the study will make a hitherto largely unknown body of material available to scholars, art lovers and all those interested in the history of Flanders in the 15th and 16th century.

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