... miniature work at the court of Henry VIII, Lucas Horenbout (d.1544) was equally sought after as an ... combined to transform the market for illuminating skills Lucas had learned in his father’s workshop in Ghent. His artistic output between 1530 and 1544 bridges the transition from traditional handwritten, hand-illuminated manuscripts to the modern, mass-produced printed book. This paper discusses that transition through Horenbout’s proposed work in five illuminated prayerbooks created ...
Tópico(s): Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
2024 - Taylor & Francis | Cogent Arts and Humanities
... and to those who came after. Yet the Horenbouts—paterfamilias Gheraert, daughter Susanna, son Lucas, daughter-in-law Margaret—were principal players in the visual campaigns of propaganda and self-promotion undertaken by Henry VIII, his successive queens, Cardinal Wolsey and the 5th Earl of Northumberland. Creators of many of the images and symbols that became the common currency of Tudor identity, the Horenbouts were the starting point for the emerging mask ...
Tópico(s): Historical Art and Culture Studies
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Cogent Arts and Humanities
... he exchanged drawings with Raphael, swapped prints with Lucas van Leyden, and bought a Salvator Mundi illuminated by Susanna Horenbout. Dürer was fascinated by objects of natural rarity ...
Tópico(s): Architecture and Art History Studies
2011 - Cambridge University Press | Renaissance Quarterly