Simon Marmion
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Simon Marmion was a French and Burgundian Early Netherlandish painter of panels and illuminated manuscripts. Marmion lived and worked in what is now France but for most of his lifetime was part of the
Reconstitution de l'extérieur du retable de Saint-Bertin.
Reconstitution de l'intérieur du retable de Saint-Bertin.
Reconstitution de Retable de Saint-Bertin
Part of the St Bertin altarpiece, Berlin
Grandes Chroniques de France
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The Grandes Chroniques de France is a vernacular royal compilation of the history of the Kingdom of France, most manuscripts of which are luxury copies that are heavily illuminated. Copies were produc
Simon Marmion
…His perspective is usually technically sound, but the proportions of his figures are often awkward, and their poses rather stiff. His masterpiece, a Grandes Chroniques de France, is now in the Russian National Library, St Petersburg. This has 25 large miniatures (215 x 258 mm) and 65 smaller ones, ranging in style from…
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with Chancellor Nicolas Rolin and the future Charles the Bold, accepts his copy of the Grandes Chroniques de France from Guillaume Fillastre on 1 January 1457. As often this presentation miniature is in the book itself, which is now in St Petersburg. This book contains the Burgundian version for later periods.
Clovis I of the Franks, Clotilde and his sons, 14th-century
Philip II of France captures Tours in 1189. Jean Fouquet