Jean De Carpentin's Book of Hours

by Alixe Bovey

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In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other masterpieces, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin’s manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus.
  • ISBN10 1903470951
  • ISBN13 9781903470954
  • Publish Date 27 December 2011
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 184
  • Language English