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Some Portraits by Johan Maelwael, Painter of the Dukes of Burgundy

2008; Brill; Volume: 38; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/157006908x366766

1570-0690

Victor Schmidt,

Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland

BRILL QUa!rendo 38 (2008) 98-IIO ~ www.brill.nl/qua Some Portraits by Johan Maelwael, Painter of the Dukes of Burgundy Victor M. Schmidt University of Groningen, Netherlands The splendid exhibition on the Limbourg brothers, held in Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen in 2005, not only provided a welcome occasion to reconsider their manuscript illuminations but also provided an opportunity to pay attention to the work of their uncle, Jean Malouel (or Johan Maelwael, to call him by his Dutch name), who was the painter of the Valois dukes of Burgundy in Dijon from 1396 until his death in 1415. In his catalogue