Das Genie der Zeichnung

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In 2013, a heretofore undescribed Parisian book of hours surfaced: it is closely connected with the Valois court of France and the Limbourg brothers from Nijmegen who worked first for the Philip the Bold of Burgundy and then illuminated the Belles Heures in New York and the Très Riches Heures in Chantilly for Jean de Berry and may have been the best Western painters working in the first two decades of the 15th century. The unfinished manuscript contains thirty pages with images left in the state of drawings. In part, they are so splendidly executed as if they were intended to remain uncoloured. As masterpieces of the International Gothic around 1400 they shed light on the genius of drawing in a time of the greatest change in art between the Middle Ages and the first attempts toward the Renaissance. They are early witnesses of the fascination Northern artists had with the new discovery of nature in Italian art in the generation just before 1400, and they belong to the very best works which paved the way to the revolutionary development of the Netherlandish primitives from the 1420s onwards who were to astound the Western world with a new liveliness of figures in panoramas of landscape and architecture. 0