large miniature on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, on parchment [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Bruges), c.1470-80] Single leaf from a small and delicate book, with a full-page arch-topped miniature (64mm. high), showing Lazarus climbing up out of the ground and looking up at Christ, his ornate carved coffin lid cast to one side, all before amazed followers and within a detailed courtyard, within a frame of thin gold and coloured bands, with full border of acanthus leaves, other more realistic foliage and bezants, a well-executed bird in the middle of the outer border and a heavy-browed hairy drollery head emerging from a flower in the centre of the bas-de-page and poking its tongue out, smudge to outer edge of upper part of border and similar to face of one bystander, else in good and presentable condition, 85mm. by 58mm., gilt and faux-green marble frame Sold by Maggs, cat.1319 (2001), no.55, for £3400, and identified there as the work of an artist in the “school of Lievan van Lathem …[and] Nicolas van Spierinc”. The delicate and emotional handling of Lazarus’ thin and naked body and his twisted mouth do point towards van Lathem as models (compare the miniature reproduced in Illuminating the Renaissance, 2003, pl.59, and the picture of God and an angel supporting Christ’s near naked corpse in the celebrated Trivulzo Hours), but the artist here has a delicacy in miniature work which is all his own.
large miniature on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, on parchment [Southern Netherlands (perhaps Bruges), c.1470-80] Single leaf from a small and delicate book, with a full-page arch-topped miniature (64mm. high), showing Lazarus climbing up out of the ground and looking up at Christ, his ornate carved coffin lid cast to one side, all before amazed followers and within a detailed courtyard, within a frame of thin gold and coloured bands, with full border of acanthus leaves, other more realistic foliage and bezants, a well-executed bird in the middle of the outer border and a heavy-browed hairy drollery head emerging from a flower in the centre of the bas-de-page and poking its tongue out, smudge to outer edge of upper part of border and similar to face of one bystander, else in good and presentable condition, 85mm. by 58mm., gilt and faux-green marble frame Sold by Maggs, cat.1319 (2001), no.55, for £3400, and identified there as the work of an artist in the “school of Lievan van Lathem …[and] Nicolas van Spierinc”. The delicate and emotional handling of Lazarus’ thin and naked body and his twisted mouth do point towards van Lathem as models (compare the miniature reproduced in Illuminating the Renaissance, 2003, pl.59, and the picture of God and an angel supporting Christ’s near naked corpse in the celebrated Trivulzo Hours), but the artist here has a delicacy in miniature work which is all his own.
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