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The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French
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Detailed record for the Dunois Hours on the BL site
The Dunois Master, also called Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French manuscript illuminator
An illuminated manuscript is a formally prepared document where the text is often supplemented with flourishes such as borders and miniature illustrations. Often used in the Roman Catholic Church for prayers, liturgical services and psalms, ...
believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. His name comes from a book of hours made for Jean de Dunois now in the British Library (Yates Thompson MS 3). He worked in association with the Bedford Master, in whose workshop he seems to have served; scholars consider him to be the most talented of the Bedford Master's assistants. He is usually assumed to have taken over the workshop when the Bedford Master ceased to be active, or to have set up his own with some of the artists.Reynolds, 526-528 His style is characterized by soft modeling of forms, and a fondness for pale colors and shell gold.
Manuscripts
* Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins Hours, late 1440s,Bibliothèque nationale de France
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, NAL 3226
* Dunois Hours, London, British Library, Yates Thompson MS 3
* Book of Hours of Simon de Varie
The ''Book of Hours of Simon de Varie'' (or the ''Varie Hours'') is a French illuminated manuscript book of hours commissioned by the court official Simon de Varie, with miniatures attributed to at least four artists; hand A who may have been a wor ...
, 1455, with Jean Fouquet and Jean Rolin Master. The three parts of this manuscript are KB 74 G37, KB 74 G37a and Getty Center
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Ms. 7
* Book of hours in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS McClean 81
* ''Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes'', musée Condé, ms. 860, ca 1465
Notes
References
* Reynolds, Catherine, "The 'Très Riches Heures', the Bedford Workshop and Barthélemy d'Eyck", '' The Burlington Magazine'', Vol. 147, No. 1229 (Aug., 2005), pp. 526–533JSTOR
Detailed record for the Dunois Hours on the BL site
Bibliography
* F. Avril and N. Reynaud: Quand la peinture était dans les livres. Les Manuscrits à Peintures en France 1440–1520, Paris, 1993, p. 38 * Dominique Thiébaut (dir.): Primitifs français. Découvertes et redécouvertes : Exposition au musée du Louvre du 27 février au 17 mai 2004, Paris, RMN, 2004, 192 p. (), p. 89-92 15th-century French painters French male painters Manuscript illuminators Anonymous artists {{France-painter-stub