Renaissance Watercolors #01

Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (Folio 8: August)
/ The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry
- Limbourg brothers (fl. 1402–1416, Netherlandish)
- watercolor, bodycolor and ink on vellum
(22.5 x 13.6 cm) c.1412-1416
- Musée Condé (Château de Chantilly, France)

In the miniature of August a party is depicted hunting on horseback, with the Duke's castle of Etampes in the background.

The Very Rich Hours of the Duke of Berry

The Très Riches Heures was illuminated for the French duke, Jean de Berry, by the three Limbourg brothers. The (black) death in 1416 of the patron and his painters left this book of hours unfinished. 

Grimani Breviary: The Month of August
- unknown miniaturist (active 1490-1510, Flemish)
- watercolor, bodycolor & ink on parchment
(28 x 20 cm) c.1490-1510
- Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Venice) 

The August page depicts hunting with hounds against a landscape background with an imposing castle.

a Grimany Breviary facsimile

Purchased around 1520 by the Venetian cardinal Grimani, this manuscript includes numerous miniatures of religious and secular subjects. 

The Miraculous Draft of Fishes 
- Raphael (1483–1520, Italian) 
- bodycolour over charcoal on paper (c.1515)
mounted on canvas (17° C) (320 x 390 cm) 
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London) 

Christ tells Peter to cast his nets, which results in a catch of miraculous size.

The Death of Ananias [of Damascus]
- Raphael (1483–1520, Italian)
- bodycolor over charcoal on paper (1515)
mounted on canvas (17° C) (342 x 532 cm)
- Victoria and Albert Museum (London) 

Ananias of Damascus was one of the Seventy Disciples of Jesus.

The Resurrection

- Giulio Clovio (1498-1578, Croatian in Italy) 

- (L) watercolor, bodycolor & ink on parchment 

 (49x32.5 cm) c.1550-60; New York Pub Lib

- (R) pen & brown ink & wash heightened with white on paper (30x21.5 cm) c.1550-60; private collection

(L) “The Towneley Lectionary ** is now in the New York Public Library. Used during services, the book contained six majestic, full-page miniatures opposite miniature depictions of the Evangelists. The illustrations, introduced the relevant readings from the Scripture. They include the Nativity, the Resurrection and the Last Judgment.”

** 【宗】(全年做禮拜時誦讀的)經文選