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Monika Grzymala 11
Works 2000-2011
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Edited by Elena Winkel, with texts by Petra Kipphoff, Elena Winkel, and Catherine de Zegh
2011. 136 pages. Color illustrations.
9 x 10.5 inches. Hardcover.
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The Prayer Book of Claude de France
2009. Edition of 980. 2.7 x 1.9 inches.
Commentary in English and German.
Magnifying glass included.
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$3,000.00
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This is how the enthusiastic manuscript expert and Morgan curator Roger S. Wieck describes
this charmingly painted manuscript that reached the interest of the
public only in 2008 by means of a private donation to the Pierpont
Morgan Library, New York. Created around 1517, the Prayer Book of Claude
de France is a painted gem, illustrated throughout, one of the most
famous manuscripts made for the royal court of France.
The personalized prayer book of the French queen Claude de France
enchants us especially by its delicate paintings in a charmingly small
format of 69x49 mm, and even more so by the unusual wealth of
illustration it contains. The namesake master of Claude de France
composed a continuous round of full-page and partly even double-page
miniatures, surmounted by a small field of text. And even these
inscribed areas are now and then cut open to show even more of the
picture: a coat flattering wildly in the wind, an emphatic gesture with
the arm, or wide landscape vistas to additionally enliven the
compositions.
With this trick, the master of Claude de France managed to
accommodate 132 lively scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin
Mary, the apostles, and various saints
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