Word: jacquemart
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...duke always tended to encourage the more progressive trends in painting. This, in practice, meant Italian influence. One of the Morgan Library's treasures, a small book of silverpoint sketches on boxwood, probably done by the duke's favorite miniaturist, Jacquemart de Hesdin, is permeated by the Italian trecento-the Madonna stately and subtle as a virgin by Simone Martini. But the greatest impact of Italy was on the artist who was also the greatest of the Berry circle: the Boucicaut Master. An illumination of the Garden of Eden, with Boccaccio sitting reading outside the wall, is full...
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