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Master of the Cité des Dames
( fl c. 1400–15). Illuminator, active in Paris. One of the most prolific illuminators in Paris during the first two decades of the 15th century, he was named by Meiss after the five or more copies of Christine de Pisan’s Cité des dames illustrated by him and his workshop. His early work is closely related to that of Jacquemart de Hesdin, with whom he executed the Barcelona Hours (c. 1401; Barcelona, Bib. Central, MS. 1850). Both artists used the same Italianate method of modelling flesh tones with green underpaint, and many of Jacquemart’s figures and compositions were adopted by the Master of the Cité des Dames. Although the Italian elements in his work are pronounced, Sterling argued that he came from the Netherlands, drawing particular attention to the artist’s evocation of realistic detail in scenes of domestic and city life, his innovative treatment of landscape and his distinctive rendering of interior space and architectural settings.
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