Additions to the William of Devon Group
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Art Bulletin
- Vol. 54 (1) , 31-40
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.1972.10789320
Abstract
The mid-thirteenth-century manuscripts comprising the Bible of William of Devon (London, Brit. Mus., Roy. 1.D.i), a Book of Hours (London, Brit. Mus., Egerton 1151) and the Cuerden Psalter (New York, Pierpont Morgan 756) have recently been re-examined by Bruce Watson and Robert Branner.1 Both authors have noted their distinguishing features (Fig. 2): the dry, linear figure style, the flat, shadowless colors, the extensive use of marginalia, and the treatment of rectilinear but interrupted borders especially characterized by disjointed stems frequently terminating in animal or human heads wearing dunce hats. Branner has pointed to Continental, or more precisely Parisian, sources for these characteristics, which may collectively be termed the “style of the William of Devon Painter,” as representing a well-defined French intrusion into English illumination.Keywords
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