Renaissance Watercolors #02

 

The Park at Hesdin
- unknown French painter
- watercolor, bodycolor & ink on parchment
(30 x 21 cm) c.1340s
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris)

The Park at Hesdin is a miniature in Le Remède de Fortune, 
a poem collection by Guillaume de Machuat (c.1300-1377, French poet & composer).

Petrarch's Virgil (frontispiece/卷首插圖)
- Simone Martini (c.1284–1344, Italian) 
- bodycolor & watercolor on parchment (30 x 20 cm) c.1336
- Biblioteca Ambrosiana (Milan) 

Petrarca was an Italian scholar and poet; Virgil was an ancient Roman poet.

Effects of Good Government in the City and Countryside (detail)
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c.1290–1348, Italian) 
- fresco, 1338-9
- Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (Italy)

The Allegory of Good and Bad Government  
- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
- a series of 3 fresco panels (7.7 x 14.4 m (room)) 1338-1339
- Palazzo Pubblico (Sien

The Lorenzetti Brothers

* Pietro Lorenzetti (c.1280–1348, Italian) and

* Ambrogio Lorenzetti (c.1290–1348, Italian)

together introduced naturalism into Sienese art.

Both are believed to have died of bubonic plague in 1348.

The Birth of John the Baptist (above)
and The Baptism of Christ (below)
(on one page of《Turin-Milan Hours》) 
- Hand G (unknown Flemish) 
- watercolor, bodycolor and ink on parchment
(28 x 20 cm) c.1440-5 
- Turin City Museum of Ancient Art (Italy) 

View of the Arco Valley 
- Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528, German)
- watercolor on paper (22 x 22 cm) 1495
- Louvre Museum (Paris)

Source: Wikipedia