Missale, cum notis musicis et cum figuris literisque pictis - BSB Clm 23032
Description
Description:
15 historisierende Initialen
Kurzaufnahme einer Handschrift Extent:
211 Bl. - Pergament Abstract:
Englische Version: This musical manuscript at the Bavarian State
Library is decorated with 15 initials with tendrils. The initials
frame pictures and refer to the chorales of the church year. For
stylistic reasons, scholars have dated these illuminations to the
last decade of the 15th century and ascribed them to the
illustrious Renaissance painter Berthold Furtmeyr (circa
1435/40–circa 1501) and his school. Furtmeyr and his followers
were important contributors to the age-old Ratisbon (present-day
Regensburg) 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), and many
other works. His major clients for these beautiful religious books
were the Bavarian dukes and the Prince-Archbishops of Salzburg. 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:
Germany
Geschichte 1400-1500
Deutschland
15th century Publication Statement:
[S.l.] 15. Jh.
