Lectiones de Sanctis, cum picturis - BSB Clm 23024
Description
Description:
10 historisierende Initialen, Regensburg, Furtmeyr oder Nachfolge,
1490 - 1500
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift Extent:
129 Bl. - Pergament Abstract:
Englische Version: This Latin manuscript containing readings for
the feast days of selected saints features ten illustrations by the
noted German Renaissance painter Berthold Furtmeyr (active,
1460-1501). The illustrations are framed by initials from the text.
For stylistic reasons, scholars have dated these illuminations with
tendrils to the last decade of the 15th century and ascribed them
to the Ratisbon (present-day Regensburg) artist and his studio.
Furtmeyr and his followers were important contributors to the
age-old Ratisbon School of Illumination. An artist of great renown,
Furtmeyr illuminated many impressive works, including this
manuscript, the Furtmeyr Bible, and the Salzburg feast missal in
five volumes (all now at the Bavarian State Library in Munich,
Germany), and many other works. In his works, the artist mastered
the difficult task of successfully combining pictures, ornament,
and text with great authority. Furtmeyr is famous for his handling
of colors, his brightly shining illuminations, and the extreme
diligence that marks his craftsmanship. Although he was still
deeply rooted in the Middle Ages, his love of color, nocturnal
scenes, and female nudes mark a transition to the Renaissance. Subjects:
15th century
Deutschland
Germany
Geschichte 1400-1500 Publication Statement:
[S.l.] 15. Jh.
