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Article
The provenance and fate of ‘Queen Elizabeth’s Book of Prayers’
07/2022 | 1432 | 164
Pages: 682-684
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Author:
Aslet, William (Aslet, William)
Subjects
artists:
Hilliard, Nicholas
patrons:
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
subjects:
Lost works / Provenance / Facsimiles / Copies / Prayer books / Stolen works of art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. François Hercule, duc d’Anjou, after Nicholas Hilliard. Coloured autotype. (From F. Chamberlin: The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth, London 1923).
Attributed works:
2. Queen Elizabeth I, after Nicholas Hilliard. Coloured autotype. (From F. Chamberlin: The Sayings of Queen Elizabeth, London 1923).
Attributed works:
3. François Hercule, duc d’Alençon and Anjou, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1579. (From Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book [. . .], Southwood 1893; British Library, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1579. (From Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book [. . .], Southwood 1893; British Library, London; Bridgeman Images).
Book Review
Trésors des Cathédrales. Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire
01/2020 | 1402 | 162
Pages: 75-76
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Reviewer:
Milner, Lesley (Milner, Lesley)
Subjects
museums and institutions:
Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Paris, France
places:
France
subjects:
Cathedrals / Ecclesiastical / Ecclesiastical vestments / Chalices / Reliquaries / Patens / Sacristies / Relics / Reliquary Crosses / Prayer books
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Trésors des Cathédrales Edited by Judith Kagan and Marie-Anne Sire. 320 pp. incl. 350 ills. (Éditions du Patrimoine, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, 2019), £72. ISBN 978–2–7577–0618–3. | :
Article
An English artist at the Valois court: a portrait of Henri III by Nicholas Hilliard
02/2019 | 1391 | 161
Pages: 102-111
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Author:
Aslet, William (Aslet, William)
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BURGIO, Lucia (BURGIO, Lucia)
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Cachaud, Céline (Cachaud, Céline)
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Derbyshire, Alan (Derbyshire, Alan)
Author:
Rutherford, Emma (Rutherford, Emma)
Subjects
art literature:
Blaise de Vigenere
artists:
Hilliard, Nicholas / Pilon, Germain / Gaultier, Jacques / Foulon, Benjamin
dates:
1500-1599 / 1550-1599
media:
Paintings / Miniatures (paintings) / Frames / Inscriptions / Drawings / Prints / Engravings / Woodcuts / Medals / Documents / Calligraphy
patrons:
Henry III, King of France, 1551-1589 / Dudley, Robert, First Earl of Leicester, 1532?-1588 / Francis d'Anjou, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, 1555-1584
places:
Great Britain / France
subjects:
British painting / French painting / Portraits / Portrait miniatures / Sitters / Royalty / Monarchy / Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 / Paulet, Amias, Sir, c.1533–88 / Ronsard, Pierre de / Patronage / Courts (social groups) / Politics / House of Valois / Wars of Religion (France: 1562-1598) / Travel / Dress / Academies / Poetry / Prayer books / Correspondence / Copies / Auctions / Iconography / Attribution / Attributions / Attributions, former / Identification / Dating
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Henri III of France, by Nicholas Hilliard. Here dated c.1576. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to playing card, 5 by 3.7 cm. (Djanogly Collection).
Attributed works:
11. François Hercule, duc d’Alençon and Anjou. Here dated c.1578. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to pasteboard, 5.8 by 4.9 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).
Attributed works:
3. Reverse of Fig.2, showing the maker’s stamp ‘JP’ or ‘PJ’.
Attributed works:
4. Coronation medal of Henri III, attributed to Germain Pilon. 1575. Bronze, diameter 16.3 cm. (British Museum, London).
Attributed works:
5. Detail of Fig.1 showing the lace ruff.
Attributed works:
7. Portrait of a gentleman, here proposed as Pierre de Ronsard, by Nicholas Hilliard. 1577. Watercolour and bodycolour on vellum stuck to playing card, height 5.1 by 4.4 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
8. Pierre de Ronsard, by Benjamin Foulon. 1580–85. Black and red chalk on paper, 33 by 23 cm. (The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg).
Attributed works:
9. and 10. François Hercule, duc d’Alençon and Anjou and Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicholas Hilliard. c.1579. From Queen Elizabeth’s Prayer Book, with Six Prayers Composed by Her Majesty and Written by Herself in English, French, Latin, Greek, and Italian, etc., Southwood 1893 (The British Library, London; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fig.1 in a Renaissance-revival pierced frame. Nineteenth century. Cherry wood, 20.5 by 12.5 cm. (Djanogly Collection).
Western art unattributed:
6. Henri III. France, after 1576. Oil on paper, 13.5 by 9.8 cm. (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
Exhibition Review
Resplendent Illuminations: Books of Hours from the 13th to the 16th Century in Quebec Collections. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
12/2018 | 1389 | 160
Pages: 1045-1047
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Reviewer:
Herman, Nicholas (Herman, Nicholas)
Subjects
art literature:
Ricci, Seymour de
dates:
2010-2019
media:
Illuminated manuscripts
museums and institutions:
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
places:
Canada / Montreal
subjects:
Books of hours / Prayer books / Psalters / Catalogues raisonnés / Literature / Collecting / Book collecting / Collections / Collections, Private / Religious art / Catholicism / Jesuits
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
10. St Helena and the invention of the True Cross, Southern Germany. c.1520. Parchment, 11 by 8 cm. (McGill University Library, Montreal, MS 162; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; photograph Gregory Houston).
Western art unattributed:
11. Woman reading in a studiolo, leaf from a book of hours, Venice or Padua (?). c.1375. Parchment, tempera, gold leaf and ink on six pieces of parchment mounted on paper, 14 by 9.5 cm. (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, inv. no.1957.1368; photograph MMFA, Christine Guest).
Western art unattributed:
9. Arrest of Christ and the kiss of Judas, Augsburg. c.1235–50. Parchment, 13.5 by 9 cm. (McGill University Library, Montreal, MS 161; exh. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts).
Book Review
Vision, Devotion, and Self-representation in Late Medieval Art, A. Sand
08/2015 | 1349 | 157
Pages: 547
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Reviewer:
Panayotova, Stella (Panayotova, Stella)
Subjects
dates:
1250-1299 / 1300-1399
subjects:
Portraits / Illuminated manuscripts / Prayer books / Patronage / Psalters / Christian iconography / Iconography / Devotional images
subjects:
Visual culture / Visual sources
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
26. Detail of Philip the Bold at prayer, from the Grandes Heures of Philip the Bold. c.1376-79 (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, MS3-1954, vol.57r)
Book Review
The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold, A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court
07/2009 | 1276 | 151
Pages: 480-481
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Reviewer:
Reynolds, Catherine (Reynolds, Catherine; R., C.)
Subjects
artists:
Lathem, Lieven van
dates:
1460-1469
museums and institutions:
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, United States
patrons:
Charles, le Téméraire, Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
places:
France / Burgundy
print:
Illuminated manuscripts
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Prayer books / Netherlandish / Flemish
subjects:
Biographies
subjects:
Collections, Public
subjects:
Burgundian
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Prayer Book of Charles the Bold, A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court | translated by: Berenbeim, Jessica , author: Schryver, Antoine de
Illustrations
Attributed works:
47. Charles the Bold presented by an Angel, from the Prayer Book of Charles the Bold (fol.68), by Lieven van Lathem. 1469. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
Article
Two Charles I Silver Bindings at Cambridge
10/1941 | 463 | 79
Pages: 127+129
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Author:
Jones, E. Alfred (Jones, E. Alfred; Jones, Edward Alfred; J., E. A.; Jones, E. A.)
Subjects
dates:
1600-1649
patrons:
Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649
places:
England
subjects:
Metalwork / Bookbindings / Bible
subjects:
Prayer books / Silverwork / Silverwork
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
A-Binding of Bible and Prayer Book. 1636. (St. John's College, Cambridge). Two Charles I Silver Bindings at Cambridge
Western art unattributed:
B-Detail of A. Two Charles I Silver Bindings at Cambridge
Western art unattributed:
C-Binding of Bible and Prayer Book. (St. John's College, Cambridge). Two Charles I Silver Bindings at Cambridge
Western art unattributed:
D-Back of the Silver Binding Reproduced in C. Two Charles I Silver Bindings at Cambridge
Article
The Prayer-Book of a Saint
12/1913 | 129 | 24
Pages: 131-133
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Author:
Bernath, Morton H. (Bernath, Morton H.; Bernath, M. H.; B., M. H.; Bernath, Morton; Bernath, M.)
Subjects
collectors and dealers:
Lanna, Adalbert, freiherr von
dates:
1300-1399
places:
Books of hours / Saints / Delphine, Blessed / Elzéar of Sabran, Saint
places:
France / Italy / Avignon / Siena / Florence
subjects:
Illuminated manuscripts / Prayer books
Illustrations
Western art unattributed:
(A) Christ Enthroned: In the Margin, S. Delphine (?). The Prayer-Book of a Saint
Western art unattributed:
(B) The Ascension. The Prayer-Book of a Saint
Western art unattributed:
(C) Initial of the Seven Penitential Psalms. The Prayer-Book of a Saint
Book Review
The Garden Enclosed. Being Certain Fair Examples and Miracles of the Blessed Messer Saint Francis, Now Translated for the First Time from a Fifteenth-Century MS. of the Fioretti, in the Riccardian Library at Florence
10/1911 | 103 | 20
Pages: 53
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Subjects
subjects:
Francis of Assisi, Saint / Hagiographies / Prayer books
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Garden Enclosed. Being Certain Fair Examples and Miracles of the Blessed Messer Saint Francis, Now Translated for the First Time from a Fifteenth-Century MS. of the Fioretti, in the Riccardian Library at Florence | author: Mansfield, M.
Book Review
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi
11/1908 | 68 | 14
Pages: 115
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Subjects
places:
Italy / Assisi
subjects:
Hagiographies
subjects:
Francis of Assisi, Saint
subjects:
Italian painting
subjects:
Prayer books
Reviewed Items
subjects:
The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi | author: Arnold, Thomas W.
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