The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to announce thepublication of
Miracles in Miniature: TheArt of the Master of Claude de France, by Roger S. Wieck with acontribution by Francisco H. Trujillo.

 

The Master of Claude de France wasan illuminator active in the French city of Tours during the first two decades of thesixteenth century.  He is named after twojewel-like manuscripts he painted for Queen Claude de France (1499-1524), firstwife of King François I:  a tiny Book ofHours (today owned by Heribert Tenschert) and an even tinier Prayer Book (todayowned by the Morgan Library & Museum). Although we find traces of him possibly as early as 1498, he does notemerge as an independent artist until around 1508.  He flourished in the second decade of thecentury -- when he illuminated the majority of his work, including the twocodices for the queen -- and disappeared shortly after 1520.  All told, his actual career lasted only ashort dozen years.  In that brief span,however, he created some of the most mesmerizing illuminations in France duringthe “last flowering” of the handwritten and hand-painted book.

 

Published on the occasion of the Morgan Library &Museum’s exhibition Miracles in Miniature:The Art of the Master of Claude de France (May 31 to September 15, 2014), thisis the first major study on the artist’s oeuvre since Charles Sterling’s 1975book that gave the illuminator his name. The study offers a survey of thepainter’s roots and training, his career, and his denouement. FranciscoTrujillo’s study of the palettes of the Claude Master and of the two artistswho trained or influenced him, Jean Bourdichon and Jean Poyer, offersfascinating scientific parallels to Roger Wieck’s stylistic analysis.  Including, in a final chapter, all the knownworks by the Claude Master and his followers, Miracles in Miniature will be the starting point for all futurestudies of the artist. 

 

Published by The Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Softcover

7½  x 10⅞ inches, 104 pages

93 color illustrations

$25.00

ISBN: 978-0-87598-167-3

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