The Rohan Master: A Book of Hours (English and French Edition)

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This powerful and breathtakingly beautiful Book of Hours was once designed in the fifteenth century by one of the crucial greatest masters of expressionism in France at the time, and executed by him (in conjunction with members of his workshop) for a royal patron. A rather unknown masterpiece, it emerged from artistic obscurity in 1904 to widespread acclaim and critical appreciation.
As Millard Meiss points out in his Introduction: “The Rohan Master cared less about what people do than what they feel. . . .Whereas his great predecessors, the Boucicaut Master and the Limbourgs, excelled in the description of novel aspects of the wildlife, he explored the realm of human feeling.” And, in his explorations, the Rohan Master disclosed a way of viewing and visually depicting reality (replete with familiar biblical figures, saints, angels, devils) and the emotions of simple women and men – suffering, elation, fear, melancholy, and hope – in a manner that may be both original and powerfully moving.
From the first folio of this remarkable and frequently startling manuscript to the final plate, all the range of human emotions is compassionately but uncompromisingly explored. Named after the Rohan circle of relatives, whose arms appear in this manuscript, this distinctive artist earned himself a place as one of the crucial greatest manuscript illuminators of the early Renaissance.

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