Jean Bondol, also known as Jean de Bruges, Jean Boudolf, or Jan Baudolf, was a Flemish artist who became a court artist of Charles V of France in 1368. He is documented as active between 1368 and 1381. He is best known for producing a number of designs for tapestries, of which the only documented survivals are the huge and very important ''

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'' series now at Angers. He painted the

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in a translation of the

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which was presented to Charles V by his

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Jehan Vaudetar. It is now in the Westreen Museum at

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. These illuminations were executed in the year 1371, a period when art in the

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was making rapid advances beyond the conventionality of the early 14th century, and the work of Jean de Bruges is by no means behind that of his contemporaries.

References

*Campbell, Thomas P. and Ainsworth, Maryan Wynn, ''Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence'', p. 15, 2002, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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* Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Artists from Bruges Early Netherlandish painters 14th-century people from the county of Flanders Manuscript illuminators Flemish tapestry artists {{Netherlandish-painter-stub