Hours of Isabella Stuart

The Hours of Isabella Stuart, Duchess of Brittany was written personally not for Isabella in the workshop of the Master of Rohan, but she was one of the earliest owners of this book.

Description

In the adjacent miniature Isabella kneels in the ducal robes in the lower left corner and recited the " Obsecro te" before the Virgin and Child, which they. Of St. Katharina is presented. Your petition "Mater Dei memento mei - Mother of God, remember me " is a scroll, which connects the two groups. In the corners of the page is their coat of arms, coupled with the ermine of Brittany.

The second miniature shown contains two figures of Christ in his capacity as Savior at the resurrection of the dead. The text below the large thumbnail is the introduction of the seven prayer petitions - " Quiconques veult bien conseillié - Who wants to be well advised ." This miniature leans in the image of the border close to the representation of the Last Judgment on the big picture is a " Christian en douleur ", the Man of Sorrows is, looking full of compassion which is collected from their graves the dead. He stands with one foot on an open grave, his emaciated body and the loose overturned coat stand out against a background full of blue cherubim from. Instead of focusing, he looks down, as if to descend to save Adam and Eve and other righteous persons who are detained there.

The three heraldic shields with crowns in the border with the arms of Scotland and Brittany act like the flowing acanthus ornament attached.

Isabella Stuart

Isabella Stuart, second daughter of James I, King of Scotland, was born about 1427. She married in 1442 Francis I, Duke of Brittany, as his second wife. Your possession of a produced in the same workshop as the Grandes Heures de Rohan Book of Hours (French livre d' heures ) assures it a place in the selected company princely book lovers who stayed by her outstanding prayer books in memory - patrons such as the Duke of Berry, Yolande of Aragon, their son René of Anjou and Anna of Brittany.

Performing artist

The obtained Books of Hours of the dukes and duchesses of Brittany of the 15th century are more historical than artistic with Brittany in conjunction. The duchy was economically backward and had therefore no separate book painting school. The books of hours came from Paris or Angers. This book is a product of the workshop of the Master of the Rohan worked for the court of Anjou. Isabella was not the Contracting Authority, it was indirectly the first wife of Francis I of Brittany, Yolande of Anjou, a daughter of the Duchess Yolande, Queen of Sicily, which supported the Champion of Rohan and gave the order.