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Jean Bourdichon (1457 or 1459 – 1521) was a French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th century, in the reigns of
Louis XI of France,
Charles VIII of France,
Louis XII of France and
Francis I of France
Francis I (french: François Ier; frm, Francoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his first cousin on ...
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He was probably born in
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
, and was a pupil of
Jean Fouquet
Jean (or Jehan) Fouquet (ca.1420–1481) was a French painter and miniaturist. A master of panel painting and manuscript illumination, and the apparent inventor of the portrait miniature, he is considered one of the most important painters from ...
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He died in Tours.
Two of Bourdichon's most famous works are the
Hours of Louis XII
The Hours of Louis XII (french: Livre d'heures de Louis XII) was an illuminated manuscript book of hours produced by Jean Bourdichon for Louis XII of France. It was begun in 1498 or 1499, going by the king's age of 36 given below his portrait; h ...
(now dispersed, begun 1498) and the
Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany (''Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne'' in French) is a book of hours, commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France to two kings in succession, and illuminated in Tours or perhaps Paris by Jean B ...
for Louis's queen.
References
Further reading
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Backhouse, Janet''A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII'' (Eds Thomas Kren, Mark L. Evans), 2005, Getty Publications, , 9780892368297 (fully online)
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1457 births
1521 deaths
Manuscript illuminators
15th-century French painters
French male painters
16th-century French painters
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