Master of Wavrin

As a master of Wavrin ( fr. Maître de Wavrin ') is a medieval book painting from the second half of the 15th century is called. The unnamed artist was probably active in France in the region around Lille. He received his Notnamen according to some manuscripts, which he created on behalf of the Burgundian nobleman Jean de Wavrin. This can be identified by the fact on doorway pages to be found Wavrins coat of arms.

The typical images of the masters of Wavrin are much less colored than the other contemporary book artist and painted in water color. The master has mostly contributed images to works together with a dozen other suspected in Lille painters, especially to romances. The master can be attributed inter alia, on the following works:

• Histoire des Seigneurs de Gavre; Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
• Le livre des amours de Coucy you Chastellain et de la Dame de Fayel; City Library Lille
• Livre du Comte d' Artois; National Library of France, Paris
• Gérard de Nevers (Ritter novel), Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels
• Olivier de Castille ' ( Knight novel); Zentralbibliothen Ghent University
• Othovien (Ritter novel); Musée Condé, Chantilly

The main client of the Master of Wavrin, Seigneur de Forestel, Jean de Wavrin was the English crown close and was a veteran of the Battle of Agincourt by 1415th Wavrin wrote the chronicle Receeuil of chroniques et anciennes istoires de la Grande Bretaigne, a work that tells the story of the English royal house of legendary beginnings to the Trojan war to the 15th century and describes the illumniert was in the workshop of the Master of Wavrin. Whether or not the master himself has contributed miniatures to is not a secure way.