The Hours of Simon de Varie

$110.00 at The Getty Museum.

James H. Marrow With a contribution by François Avril Leading French painters in the late medieval period executed miniatures for lavishly illuminated books of hours. In the mid-fifteenth century, Simon de Varie commissioned such a book that included works by the most eminent French painter of the time, Jean Fouquet, as well as striking paintings by two of his contemporaries. The Hours of Simon de Varie reproduces in color all the miniatures and historiated initials in the original manuscript, along with…