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

Renaissance Watercolors #04

Charity of St. Martin
《Hours of Etienne Chevalier, Tours》c.1452-60
- Jean Fouquet (c.1425-c.1478, French)
- watercolor, bodycolor, ink & gold
on parchment (21 x 14 cm)
- Louvre (Paris, France)

View of Flanders (Flemish countryside)
in《Trésor des Histoires, Bruges》c.1475-80
- Master of the Getty Froissant (active c.1475-85)
& Master of the London Wavrin (active 1470s)
- bodycolor on parchment (48 x 23 cm)
- British Library (London)

Courtyard of Innsbruck Castle to the South
- Albrecht Durer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on paper
(34 x 27 cm) c.1495-6
- Albertina Museum (Vienna)

A Village Feast
- Hans Bol (1534–1593, Flemish)
- bodycolor & gold paint, mounted on wood
(14 x 21 cm) 1591
- Royal Library of Belgium (Brussels)

A Flemish Village
- Hans Bol (1534-1593, Flemish)
- pen & brown ink with grey wash,
over graphite on paper (18 x 31 cm) c.1586
- British Museum (London)

Sources: Wikipedia

Renaissance Watercolors #03

Willow Mill
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on paper (25 x 37 cm) 1496-9
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris)

Dream Vision
- Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528, German)
- watercolor on paper (30 x 43 cm) 1525
- Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

Landscape with a Woodcutter
- Albrecht Altdorfer (1480–1538, German)
- watercolor & bodycolor on paper (20 x 14 cm) c.1522
- Kupferstichkabinett,
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany)

Renaissance Watercolors #014
* Landscape with the Flight into Egypt
(of Mary and Joseph with the infant Jesus)
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c.1525/30-1569, Dutch)
- oil** on wooden board (37 x 56 cm) 1563
- Courtauld Gallery, London (UK)

**Bruegel made watercolors but none survived.

The Right Hand of God
Protecting the Faithful against the Demons
《Hours of Etienne Chevalier, Tours》c.1452-60
- Jean Fouquet (c.1425–c.1478, French)
- watercolor, bodycolor, ink & gold on parchment
(19 x 15 cm)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC, USA)

Source: Wikipedia

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

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