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The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany is a book of hours, commissioned by Anne of Brittany, Queen of France to two kings in succession, and illuminated in Tours or perhaps Paris by Jean Bourdichon between 1503 and 1508 Saintes vierges
Anne of Brittany (1477-1514) with her patron saints, Anne, Ursula (with the arms of Brittany on a pennant) and Catherine. This scene is on folio 3
Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457-1521) Anne of Brittany (1477-1514)
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany BnF Saint Matthew the Evangelist
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and Saint John in the center
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany St Anne teaching Mary the Scriptures
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany The Archangel Gabriel
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Annunciation (fragment)
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany has been described by John Harthan as "one of the most magnificent Books of Hours ever made“, and is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France as Ms lat. 9474. It has 49 full-page miniatures in a Renaissance style, and more than 300 pages have large borders illustrated with a careful depiction of, usually, a single species of plant.
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Marie enseignant Jésus
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Saints-Confesseurs
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Saint Martyrs Saint John
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Saint Antoine
The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany Présentation au Temple
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion French cca 1310 Ivory Metropolitan Museum of Art
Booklet with Scenes of the Passion French cca 1310 Ivory Metropolitan Museum of Art
Book of Hours (c.1515) Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457-1521) Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Louis XII of France (from the Poetic Epistles of Anne of Brittany and Louis XII)
Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457-1521) Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève
Jean Bourdichon (French, 1457-1521) Metropolitan Museum of Art
Unknown, Illumination dedicated to a young prince In Guillaume Budé, L’Institution du prince, vers 1518-1519
Unknown, Illumination dedicated to a young prince In Guillaume Budé, L’Institution du prince, vers 1518-1519
The Annunciation, from a Book of Hours The Art Institute of Chicago 1440/45
The poet Jean Marot (1450-1526) handing over his work Voyage to Genoa to Anne of Brittany, ca 1508, miniature by Jean Bourdichon (1457-1521) Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
Andrea Mantegna (Italian, c 1431–1506) The Evangelist Mark The Städel Museum, Frankfurt
Matteo di Giovanni (Italian, 1430-1495) Madonna and Child with Saint Jerome, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Angels National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Giacomo Pacchiarotto (Italian, 1474-1539) A Young Lady Writing in a Hymnal Alvise Vivarini (vers 1442/53 -1503/05) La Vierge à l'enfant, avec saint Jérôme
El Greco (Greek 1540.41–1614) Saint Jerome as Scholar ca. 1610 Metropolitan Museum of art Geminiano di Bongiovanni Benoni (fin XVe-début XVIe Saint Jerome reading
Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel Madonna and Child in a landscape. 1624-1625 Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
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