A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII

by Nancy Turner, Thomas Kren, Mark Kren, Thomas, (Ed.); Evans

Book Overview

The Hours of Louis XII is the stunning prayer book that Jean Bourdichon painted for the king of France, mostly likely on the occasion of his coronation in 1498. Bourdichon was the court painter to four successive French kings, including Louis and his predecessor, Charles VIII. The manuscript was originally illuminated with twelve large calendar miniatures and two dozen full-page miniatures, but by the seventeenth century the Hours of Louis XII had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892368292
• ISBN13: 9780892368297
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.6" x 10.8"