Sujet
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto), c. 1510. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Leaf from a Book of Hours: Adoration of the Magi (recto), c. 1510. Characteristic of the artist's hand, the bright orange-reds combine with deep blues, greens, and an abundance of gold wash in this leaf. He used fine parallel lines or crosshatching in gold to indicate the shading, highlights, and texture of draperies, suggesting some knowledge of printmaking, an art for which Rouen was also an important center. His figures have large, thickly outlined oval faces. This miniature also demonstrates the emerging fashion in both Rouen and Paris for highly involved, Italianate architectural frames: winged putti, swags, urns, garlands, scallop shells, pillasters, and masks. These elements could be assembled in different ways so that no two frames were identical. Rouen in the late 1400s and early 1500s was an established and important center for book production. Richly decorated library texts and books of hours, such as the present leaves, were made in Rouen for sale in the cours des libraires , next to the cathedral.
Date
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Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F90_463
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
97,9Mo (4,7Mo) / 40,8cm x 60,1cm / 4824 x 7097 (300dpi)