3-044-240 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Book of Hours, about 1480-1490. Additional Info: A popular devotional tool, books of hours contain a cycle of prayers and meditations focusing on the Virgin Mary for laypersons to recite at various times of day. Artists personalized the books to suit the requirements and interests of individual patrons. This book, for example, contains two miniatures that allude to specific paintings owned by King René I of Anjou. Eight full-page and six half-page miniatures, as well as numerous historiated initials, decorate this book of hours. The manuscript represents some of the earliest known work of Georges Trubert, who served King René at his court in Provence in the 1480s. Another artist in the book worked in a style common to artists active to the north, in the Loire valley.