The master of the prayer books of around 1500 in the spotlight: an investigation of the artist(s), the oeuvre, their colleagues and their patrons

An in-depth study of work attributed to an anonymous illuminator active in Flanders in the late fifteenth- and early sixteenth century. His entire oeuvre is assembled and presented here for the first time since the creation in the mid 1910s of the eponym "Gebetbuchmeister um 1500". His work is here compared to contributions by other artists, sometimes for a same group of patrons

Jean Froissart, Chroniques (Parijs, BnF, ms. fr. 2645 (3de vol. van ms. fr. 2643-2646) Vlaamse Miniaturen 1404-1482 - Bernard Bousmanne & Thierry Delcourt eds.

Detailed description of the third volume of the four volume copy of the Chroniques de Froissart made for Louis de Bruges, seigneur de Gruuthuse(1422-1492), produced in Flanders in the early 1470s and illuminated among others by the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook

Sparse with colors and modest in scenery: a perfect decorum for an exceptional illumination by Simon Bening

The oeuvre of one of the most celebrated Flemish artists producing colorful illuminations for lavishly decorated manuscripts is Simon Bening (about 1481 - 1561). This paper investigates a virtually unpublished miniature exceptionally executed in a grisaille technique and showing a unique portrait of Christ in profile as Salvator Mundi. It is part of a series of eleven miniatures kept in an unfinished fragmentary manuscript. The sparse color palette is a perfect decorum for this unusual rendering of the Face of Christ

The hours of queen Isabella the Catholic

Commentary volume to the Faksimile Edition of one of the Books of Hours of Queen Isabella of Castile (+ 1504). The manuscript on parchment is illuminated by the Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian, the Master of the Prayer books of around 1500, the Master of James IV of Scotland (sometimes identified with Gerard Horenbout, one of the court painters of Margaret of Austria), and Gerard David