Kings, Queens, and Courtiers: Art in Early Renaissance France

Chicago and New Haven, CT: Art Institute of Chicago; Yale University Press, 2011. Cloth, 208 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), map; 32 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 27 to May 30, 2011. Previously held under the title "France 1500: Entre Moyen Age et Renaissance" at the Galeries nationales, Grand Palais, Paris, October 6, 2010 to January 10, 2011. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This sumptuous catalogue provides an overview of French art circa 1500, a dynamic, transitional period when the country, resurgent after the dislocations of the Hundred Years' War, invaded Italy and all media flourished. What followed was the emergence of a unique art: the fusion of the Italian Renaissance with northern European Gothic styles. Outstanding examples of exquisite and revolutionary works are featured, including paintings, sculptures, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, tapestries, and metalwork. Exciting new research brings to life court artists Jean Fouquet, Jean Bourdichon, Michel Colombe, Jean Poyer, and Jean Hey (The Master of Moulins), all of whose creations were used by kings and queens to assert power and prestige. Also detailed are the organization of workshops and the development of the influential art market in Paris and patronage in the Loire Valley." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The France of Charles VIII and Louis XII: a turning point?, by Philippe Contamine; The genesis of the work of art: the patron and the artist in France around 1500, by Philippe Lorentz; The artistic landscape around 1500: words and things, by Pierre-Yves Le Pogam; Princesses as patrons, by Martha Wolff; The transformations of the mid-fifteenth century, by Frederic Elsig; Louis XI and the princes of the blood, by Martha Wolff; The kings and their artists, by Thierry Crepin-Leblond and Martha Wolff; The sources of artistic creation: centers and artists, by Genevieve Bresc-Bautier; Bourges and the Loire Valley, by Beatrice de Chancel-Bardelot; The Bourbons and the Bourbonnais, by Martha Wolff; Paris, capital of the arts, by Etienne Hamon; The North and the migration of artists, by Frederic Elsig; The diffusion of the work of art, by Elisabeth Taburet-Delahaye and Severine Lepape; The fascination of Italy: myth and reality, by Genevieve Bresc-Bautier.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.