Jean Pucelle

Innovation and Collaboration in Manuscript Painting

Edited by Kyunghee Pyun Edited by Anna Russakoff

Book cover: Jean Pucelle

Extent: 222 pages

Publisher: Harvey Miller

Subjects: Art & Art History, Medieval Studies

Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History

Series volume number: 59

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(November 2013)

ISBN: 9781905375462

Price: $163.00

In stock

This book focuses on the works and legacy of Jean Pucelle, a French 14th-century artist.


Jean Pucelle (fl. ca. 1319-d. 1334) was one of the most prominent artists of the first half of the fourteenth century, an influential illuminator who worked closely with a number of collaborators both known and anonymous. A large number of lavishly-illuminated manuscripts have been attributed to him based on stylistic analysis.Scholarly essays in this book explore issues crucial to the establishment of his distinctinve style: originality, technique, color palette, influence, levels of resemblance, the relationships between artistic media, and patronage. The contributors to this volume analyze the major works associated with Pucelle or the Pucellian style, and interpret pictorial elements in the tradition of artistic collaboration. This is the first collective work devoted entirely to Jean Pucelle and his legacy.With contributions by Barbara Drake Boehm, Pascale Charron, Marc Gil, Joan A. Holladay, Marguerite A. Keane, Mie Kuroiwa, Domenic Leo, Kyunghee Pyun, Anna D. Russakoff and Roger S. Wieck.

Introduction: Roger S. Wieck ~ Part 1: Works of Jewan Pucelle Joan A. Holladay, Jean Pucelle and His Patrons, Marc Gil, Jean Pucelle and the Parisian Seal-Engravers and Goldsmiths, Barbara D. Boehm, Perfect Penmanship: Pucelle's Creativity in the Margins of the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Anna D. Russakoff, Collaborative Illumination: Jean Pucelle and the Visual Program of Gautier de Coinci's Les Miracles de Nostre Dame (Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. fr. 24541), Pascale Charron, Color, Grisaille and Pictorial Techniques in Works by Jean Pucelle ~ Part 2: Legacy of Jean Pucelle Mie Kuroiwa, Working with Jean Pucelle and His Successors: The Case of the Saint Louis Master (Mahiet?), Marguerite A. Keane, Collaboration in the Hours of Jeanne de Navarre, Domenic Leo, The Pucellian School and the Rise of Naturalism: Style as Royal Signifier?, Kyunghee Pyun, Pucellian Influence in Illuminated Liturgical Manuscripts Bibliography, List of Illustrations, Index of Manuscripts, Index

  • Edited by Kyunghee Pyun
  • Edited by Anna Russakoff