The Master of Anthony of Burgundy was a

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miniature painter active in

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between about 1460 and 1490, apparently running a large workshop, and producing some of the most sophisticated work of the final flowering of Flemish illumination. He was first identified by Winkler in 1921; his name is derived from one of his most elevated patrons, Anthony of Burgundy,

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's illegitimate son, though he also worked for the

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and other bibliophiles in Burgundian court circles, who had already been allocated "Masters" by art historians. His contributions to the heavily illustrated

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from the early 1470s, on which several of the leading illuminators of the day worked, show him excelling some more famous names, like Loiset Lyédet. The young

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worked as his assistant on this book, suggesting he was an apprentice; a number of other anonymous masters have been postulated as his pupils. Other works are in the libraries of

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, Cambridge University Library and elsewhere. He sometimes painted using gold and silver on a black background, as in the ''Vienna Black Hours'' (or ''Sforza Hours'' and other titles) now in

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. It is through the somewhat controversial attribution of that book to him, and its further identification with a book presented to Charles the Bold and known to have been illustrated by Philippe de Mazerolles, the Frenchman appointed as Burgundian court illuminator, that he has been proposed as identical to de Mazerolles, who is documented between 1454-1479. The Master, or his circle, have also been associated with the first

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s produced for book illustration, in an edition of Boccaccio printed in Bruges by Colard Mansion in about 1476.Kren & McKendrick, 271-4. See Colard Mansion for more details on the edition.

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References

*S McKendrick in, T Kren & S McKendrick (eds), Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe, Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, 2003,

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The Master painted most of the miniatures in BnF 2645 and 2646 shown here, though unfortunately the individual folios are not attributed to artists on the website.

{{ACArt Manuscript illuminators Antoine de Bourgogne, Master of Early Netherlandish painters Arts in the court of Philip the Good