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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the work of Tournai's great years was unsigned, the loving labor of anonymous monks and artisans identity had been lost through the centuries. But a few big names survived for the town to boast about: Master Illuminator Jean de Tavernier and Tapestry-maker Pasquier Grenier, whose works, commissioned by the great lords of the 15th Century, are now treasured by the museums and libraries of Europe; Painters Roger van der Weyden, Robert Campin and Jacques Daret, whose realistic detail and rich color placed them in the vanguard of the great Flemish artists of the Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Morale Boosters | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...CECILE PASQUIER -Georges Du-hamel-Ho/f ($2.75). Herein, in books 6, 7, and 8 of his Pasquier Chronicles, Georges Duhamel continues to outline not only a family but the city of Paris, the civilization of modern France. Chief characters are Sister Cecile, pianistic genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jun. 17, 1940 | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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