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This Week: Small Comfort to a Young Queen

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Holland Cotter
Illustrations in the prayer book of the 16th-century Claude de France.
NEW YORK---In 16th-century Europe, smaller was considered better — more beautiful, more precious — when it came to hand-illustrated books. A high value indeed must have been attached to a 2 ¾-by-2-inch prayer book created around 1517 for Claude de France, the first wife of the King François I. The book, made on commission from a young queen at her coronation by an artist now anonymous, is the centerpiece of “Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France” at the Morgan Library & Museum. (Through Sept. 14, 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, 212-685-0008, themorgan.org.) [link]
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Roberta Smith | NYTimes said…
Paper is the mother lode of the Morgan Library & Museum, and one of the great through lines of civilizations everywhere. Nearly every Morgan exhibition, whether of prints, drawings, rare books or musical scores, enlarges the understanding of paper as a means of expression, both personal and cultural. Right now, windows are being opened there by two delightfully focused exhibitions that center on artists using paper to different ends, in different centuries and parts of Europe.

“Miracles in Miniature: The Art of the Master of Claude de France” conveys a powerful sense of Renaissance religiosity as encapsulated in the exquisite manuscript illuminations by a recently discovered artist working in the royal courts of Brittany and the Loire Valley in the early 16th century.
Thu Jun 05, 08:56:00 PM EDT
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