The Hours of Simon de VarieGetty Publications, 1994 - 255 pages Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book. Completed in 1455, it included five priceless works by the most eminent French painter of the time, Jean Fouquet, as well as other striking paintings by two of his contemporaries. In the seventeenth century, Simon de Varie's book was divided into three sections and sold as separate volumes. Two of these volumes are today in the Royal Library in The Hague. The third volume--thought lost until 1984, when it surfaced in a private collection and was subsequently acquired by the Getty Museum--contains the first miniatures by Jean Fouquet to have been discovered in eighty years. This beautiful book will reproduce in color all of the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with selected text pages with secondary decoration. Comparative illustrations also accompany the two essays in the volume. Marrow's text addresses the role of books of hours in late medieval culture; the contents and form of de Varie's Hours; and the relationship of the miniatures by Fouquet to the rest of the artist's oeuvre. In a related essay, Francois Avril discusses the position of Simon de Varie and his family in mid-fifteenth-century France. The publication of The Hours of Simon de Varie adds to the Getty's impressive list of publications on illuminated manuscripts begun in 1990 and including the widely acclaimed facsimile Mira calligraphiae monumenta. |
Table des matières
Simon de Varie Patron of the Hours François Avril | 111 |
Technical Description | 219 |
The History of | 241 |
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appears artists Avril Bedford Master Bibliothèque Nationale bifolio book of hours Bourges Calendar Miniature Charles VII Chevalier Hours Chief Associate Christ Child coat of arms codex color coloristic decoration Diptych donor Durrieu enthroned Étienne Chevalier Figure France François French frontispiece miniatures Getty volume gold Guillaume de Varie gules Hague Hague volume half-page miniature Hand heraldic Hours of Étienne Hours of Simon illuminated illustrations Isle-Savary Jacques Coeur Jean de Dunois Jean Fouquet Jean Robertet Jean Rolin Jouvenel des Ursins JPGM Koninklijke Bibliotheek leaf Leroquais 1927 Louis XI manuscript margins Martyrdom of Saint Master of Jean motto VIE Musée original overpainted Pächt painted panel Paris patron Paul Getty Museum Pièces originales 2929 Plate PLVS QVE IAMAIS portrait prayer to Mary Prigent de Coëtivy Rolin II Calendar Rolin II Saint royal Saint John Saint Luke Saint Maurus Simon de Varie suffrages tion Varie Hours Varie's Virgin and Child