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

Abstract

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