GetWiki

{{short description|French miniature painter and manuscript illuminator (c.1457/1459-1521)}}{{Expand French|Jean Bourdichon|topic=bio|date=August 2013}}File:Bourdichon The Wealthy Man.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Miniature, The Wealthy Man, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-ArtsÉcole nationale supérieure des Beaux-ArtsJean Bourdichon (1457 or 1459 – 1521) was a French painter and manuscript illuminator at the court of France between the end of the 15th century and the start of the 16th century, in the reigns of Louis XI of France, Charles VIII of France, Louis XII of France, and Francis I of France.WEB,weblink Jean Bourdichon Brief Bio, Answers.com, 2012-05-14, He was probably born in Tours, and was a pupil of Jean Fouquet.WEB,weblink Jean Fouquet Brief Bio, 2012-05-14, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20150523100533weblink">weblink 2015-05-23, He died in Tours.

Paintings

File:Naples certosa s martino bourdichon madonna.JPG|thumb|upright=1.5|Triptych of the Virgin and Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist, Certosa di San Martino, NaplesNaples

• Portrait of Saint Francis of Paola, sent by king Francis I to pope Leo X, engraved by Michel Lasne.
• (:fr:Triptyque de la Vierge avec les deux saints Jean|Triptych of the Virgin and Child between Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist), oil on panel, 114 x 150 cm, Certosa di San Martino, Naples.
• Entombment of Christ, oil on panel, église Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Gonesse{{Palissy|PM95000286}} database or by an imitator of Bourdichon and Jean Poyer.JOURNAL, Girault, Pierre-Gilles, February 2012, Jean Bourdichon, brillant peintre des rois, French, Dossier de l'art, 193, 32-37,
• Diptych of Christ Blessing and (:fr:Vierge en oraison|Virgin in Prayer) (Vierge en oraison), oil on panel, Musée des beaux-arts de Tours.JOURNAL, Charron, Pascale, Girault, Pierre-Gilles, February 2012, Jean Bourdichon et atelier, Christ bénissant et Vierge en oraison, French, Dossier de l'art, 193, 40-43, JOURNAL, Taburet-Delahaye, Élisabeth, Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève, Crépin-Leblond, Thierry, 2010, France 1500 : Entre Moyen-Âge et Renaissance, French, RMN, 978-2-7118-5699-2, 264,
• Vierge en oraison, oil on panel, Sam Fogg collection, London, formerly in Riga.

Christ bénissant-Tours.jpg|Christ Blessing, Musée des beaux-arts de Tours.Vierge en oraison de Tours.jpg|{{ill|Vierge en oraison|fr}}, Musée des beaux-arts de Tours.Vierge en oraison de Riga.jpg|Vierge en oraison, Sam Fogg collection, London.

Manuscripts

Two of Bourdichon's most famous works are the Hours of Louis XII (now dispersed, begun 1498) and the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany for Louis's queen.

References

{{reflist}}

Further reading

• Backhouse, Janet, A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII, (Eds Thomas Kren, Mark L. Evans), 2005, Getty Publications, {{ISBN|0892368292}}, 9780892368297 (fully online)
• JOURNAL, D'Urso, Teresa, 2020, Un missel illustré par Jean Bourdichon pour Louis d'Amboise, French,weblink Art de l'Enluminure, 74, 4–24, 30 December 2020,

External links

{{commons category-inline}}{{Authority control (arts)}}{{France-painter-stub}}