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Raising of Lazarus, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, perhaps Ghent, c. 1470s]
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Southern Netherlandish illuminator
Raising of Lazarus, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, perhaps Ghent, c. 1470s]
A very fine, small-scale depiction of the Raising of Lazarus from the golden age of Flemish mansucript illumination.
87 x 60mm. The Raising of Lazarus probably opening the Office of the Dead, verso blank (rubbed at top left corner, with a little pigment loss to miniature). Mounted and framed. Provenance: (1) Maggs, catalogue 1319, 2001, no 55. (2) Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 8 July 2015, lot 72.
This small yet dynamic composition would have opened the Office of the Dead in a pocket-sized Book of Hours illuminated during the great period of Flemish manuscript illumination that began in the 1470s: the artist responsible was evidently an illuminator of some skill, as shown by the exquisite finish of the landscape in the background and the detailed rendering of the disturbed earth and cast-aside gravestone beside Lazarus. The fluid brushwork and lively colour palette are reminiscent of the very best of Ghent illumination in the final quarter of the 15th century, typified by the work of Lieven van Lathem and the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy.
Raising of Lazarus, miniature on a leaf from a Book of Hours, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands, perhaps Ghent, c. 1470s]
A very fine, small-scale depiction of the Raising of Lazarus from the golden age of Flemish mansucript illumination.
87 x 60mm. The Raising of Lazarus probably opening the Office of the Dead, verso blank (rubbed at top left corner, with a little pigment loss to miniature). Mounted and framed. Provenance: (1) Maggs, catalogue 1319, 2001, no 55. (2) Bloomsbury Auctions, London, 8 July 2015, lot 72.
This small yet dynamic composition would have opened the Office of the Dead in a pocket-sized Book of Hours illuminated during the great period of Flemish manuscript illumination that began in the 1470s: the artist responsible was evidently an illuminator of some skill, as shown by the exquisite finish of the landscape in the background and the detailed rendering of the disturbed earth and cast-aside gravestone beside Lazarus. The fluid brushwork and lively colour palette are reminiscent of the very best of Ghent illumination in the final quarter of the 15th century, typified by the work of Lieven van Lathem and the Vienna Master of Mary of Burgundy.
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