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| The Virgin Mary nursing baby Jesus by Master Jean Fouquet |
The Book of Hours of Simon de Varie (or the Varie Hours) is a French Illuminated manuscript
commissioned by the court official Simon de Varie, with miniatures
attributed to at least four artists; hand A who may have been a workshop
member of the Bedford Master, the anonymous illustrators known as the Master of Jean Rolin (hand B), the Dunois Master (hand C) and the French miniaturist Jean Fouquet. It was completed in 1455 and consists of 49 large miniatures and dozens of decorative vignettes and painted initials, which total over 80 decorations.
Fouquet is known to have contributed six full leaf illuminations,
including a masterwork Donor and Virgin diptych. A number of saints
appear - Saint Simon (de Varie's patron saint) is placed as usual alongside Saint Jude (folio 41); other pages feature saints Bernard of Menthon, James the Greater and Guillaume de Bourges. Read more...
- Highlight about this manuscript from the Hague
- Highlight about this illuminated page from the Digital Scriptorium
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