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International Gothic is a period of Gothic art that began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century. It then spread very widely across Western Europe, hence the n
The Agony in the Garden with the Donor Louis I, Duke of Orléans, Colart de Laon, c. 1405-1408, Prado Museum
Detail of the Annunciation (1333) by the Sienese Simone Martini, Uffizi
Lorenzo Monaco, The Flight into Egypt (c. 1405, predella) Tempera on poplar, 21,2 x 35,5 cm
The Votive Panel of Jan Očko of Vlašim. Kneeling Emperor Charles IV and his son Wenceslaus before the Virgin, Bohemia, 1371. (Detail)
The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, or Très Riches Heures is an illuminated manuscript that was created between c. 1412 and 1416. It is a book of hours, which is a Christian devotional book and co
International Gothic
…cases being received into Heaven by them, as with a miniature of Jean, Duc de Berry, and some of his relatives, being welcomed by Saint Peter in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. From this period come the earliest surviving panel portraits of monarchs, and royal manuscripts show a greatly increased number of realistic portraits…
The Anatomical Zodiac Man
Page from the calendar of the Très Riches Heures showing the household of John, Duke of Berry exchanging New Year gifts. The Duke is seated at the right, in blue.
The Baptism of Saint Augustine, folio 37v
The Nativity of Jesus, folio 44v