MEISS (Millard) French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry. The Boucicaut Master. , Phaidon Press, 1968.First Edition, 4to, 384pp., 497 illustrs., (14 in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. Like the Duc de Berry, Jean le Meingre II, Marshall of France, was a great patron of the arts, and the Book of Hours he commissioned is one of the glories of medieval illumination. Meiss agrees with an earlier view that the master illustrator of this work is Jacques Coene of Bruges. Meiss discusses the political and iconographic significance of a variety of miniatures handsomely reproduced in this volume. (Book ref. 29206) £81.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, Forest Books , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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