A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII

$30.00 at The Getty Museum.

Thomas Kren, Mark Evans, Janet Backhouse, and Nancy TurnerEdited by Thomas Kren with Mark Evans The Hours of Louis XII is the stunning prayer book that Jean Bourdichon (1457/58–1521) painted for the king of France, most likely on the occasion of his coronation in 1498. Bourdichon was the court painter to four successive French kings, including Louis and his predecessor, Charles VIII. The manuscript was originally illuminated with twelve large calendar miniatures and two dozen full-page miniatures, but by the…