Jean Pucelle: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Pictorial Depiction and Compositional Design
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux is one of the finest examples of a 14th century type devotional illuminated manuscript known as a Book of Hours. A Book of Hours was a devotional guide that aided the reader, by means of text and image, in a schedule of prayers throughout the day. Created by the artist Jean Pucelle, this Book of Hours was commissioned for Queen Jeanne d'Evreux of France. As a work of late Gothic devotional art, The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, which is in the collection of the Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, expands the viewer’s spiritual imagination. To achieve this purpose, Pucelle’s art employs a unique and refined visual language. This visual method unites the illusion of pictorial depiction with the structure of compositional design. Salve Regina is a 12th century Marian antiphon
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux is one of the finest examples of a 14th century type devotional illuminated manuscript known as a Book of Hours. A Book of Hours was a devotional guide that aided the reader, by means of text and image, in a schedule of prayers throughout the day. Created by the artist Jean Pucelle, this Book of Hours was commissioned for Queen Jeanne d'Evreux of France. As a work of late Gothic devotional art, The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, which is in the collection of the Cloisters Museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, expands the viewer’s spiritual imagination. To achieve this purpose, Pucelle’s art employs a unique and refined visual language. This visual method unites the illusion of pictorial depiction with the structure of compositional design. Salve Regina is a 12th century Marian antiphon