Thursday, July 1, 2021

Renaissance Watercolors #05

 

An Iris
- Jacopo Bellini (c.1400-c.1470, Venetian)
- watercolor on parchment
(38 x 26 cm) c.1430s - late c.1450s
- Louvre (Paris)




A Eurasian Hoopoe 
- (attributed to) Simon Marmion (c.1435-1489, French)
- watercolor on paper (17 x 28 cm) mid-15°C
- Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Vienna)



decorations in《Cocharelli Manuscript》,
 a treatise on the Seven Vices
- unknown (active c.1330-40)
- watercolor on parchment (each 17 x 11 cm) c.1330-40
- British Library (London)

Decorated border with sprays of living things decorating a page from a verse history of Sicily in the time of Frederick II.



(L) “Catherine of Cleves kneels before the Virgin and Child”
in《Hours of Catherine of Cleves》c.1440
- anonymous Dutch artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves
- watercolor on parchment (each page 19 x 13 cm) 
- Morgan Library and Museum in NYC (USA)

Notes: This book of hours contains the usual offices, prayers and litanies in Latin, along with supplemental texts, decorated with 157 colorful and gilded illuminations -- an ornately illuminated manuscript in the Gothic art style.



The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
- Raphael
Note: a repetition of #01, not to be repeated here.


Sources: Wikipedia

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