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RARE INTERNATIONAL STYLE ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT FROM A PROFESSIONAL LONDON WORKSHOP
The Saxby Psalter-Hours (use of Sarum)
1 full-page frontispiece and 20 historiated initials perhaps by Giles Banaster and Robert Hillary
England, probably London, c. 1425-40
An impressively grand English manuscript, the Saxby Psalter-Hours opens with a full-page picture, the size of a small panel painting and a prime example of International Gothic art...
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MEET ME AT THE FAIR...
POST BY SANDRA HINDMAN
The telephone, the Ferris Wheel, the first public toilet, the television, the Eiffel Tower, the incubator, the X-ray machine, even the dishwasher – these are just a few of the “firsts” exhibited at world’s fairs. But, a book?
What kind of book could compete with a scientific novelty like Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone or an architectural wonder like Gustav Eiffel’s tower?
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MONUMENTAL WORK BY A RARE AMIENS PAINTER DIRECTLY INFLUENCED BY FLEMISH PRIMITIVES
Hours of Philippote de Nanterre (Use of Amiens)
27 miniatures by the Master of Raoul d’Ailly and a collaborator
France, Amiens, c. 1420s
The haunting style of this painter merges Parisian courtly elegance with the northern realism of the Flemish primitives to pioneer a new form of pictorial representation...
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