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Klara H. Broekhuijsen, The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland (Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination; Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2009, 25 cm, hardcover, viii + 472 pp., 40 colour, 141 b&w illus., ISBN 9782503515106, € 125).

Klara H. Broekhuijsen, The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland... The Book and Its Accomplishments In the early 1980s Anne Korteweg and Claudine Chavannes-Mazel, while working on the exhibition Schatten van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek , dubbed a group of illuminators active in South Holland in the decades flanking 1500 the Zwarte-Ogen-Meesters (Masters of the Dark Eyes). Indeed, the artists painted their figures with heavy shadows around their eyes, but the art historians could have just as easily called them ‘the Masters who painted manuscripts by the square yard’. Their production was enormous, and within each manuscript they embellished, they filled the parchment from edge to edge. When scholars of Dutch manuscripts pronounce the term Masters of the Dark Eyes , they often do so with a slight look of contempt. These painters represent a last gasp of the illuminated manuscript in the Northern Netherlands before the printing press forced their obsolescence. That Klara Broekhuijsen has brought these manuscripts together for the first time is the major contribution of this work. Future scholars can now proceed with the work of interpretation. The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland presents a near-verbatim translation of the dissertation titled De Zwarte-Ogen-Meesters: een onderzoek naar de stijl en http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

Klara H. Broekhuijsen, The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland (Ars Nova. Studies in Late Medieval and Renaissance Northern Painting and Illumination; Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, 2009, 25 cm, hardcover, viii + 472 pp., 40 colour, 141 b&w illus., ISBN 9782503515106, € 125).

Rudy, Kathryn
Quaerendo , Volume 43 (1): 83 – Jan 1, 2013
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Brill
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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0014-9527
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1570-0690
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10.1163/15700690-12341264
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The Book and Its Accomplishments In the early 1980s Anne Korteweg and Claudine Chavannes-Mazel, while working on the exhibition Schatten van de Koninklijke Bibliotheek , dubbed a group of illuminators active in South Holland in the decades flanking 1500 the Zwarte-Ogen-Meesters (Masters of the Dark Eyes). Indeed, the artists painted their figures with heavy shadows around their eyes, but the art historians could have just as easily called them ‘the Masters who painted manuscripts by the square yard’. Their production was enormous, and within each manuscript they embellished, they filled the parchment from edge to edge. When scholars of Dutch manuscripts pronounce the term Masters of the Dark Eyes , they often do so with a slight look of contempt. These painters represent a last gasp of the illuminated manuscript in the Northern Netherlands before the printing press forced their obsolescence. That Klara Broekhuijsen has brought these manuscripts together for the first time is the major contribution of this work. Future scholars can now proceed with the work of interpretation. The Masters of the Dark Eyes: Late Medieval Manuscript Painting in Holland presents a near-verbatim translation of the dissertation titled De Zwarte-Ogen-Meesters: een onderzoek naar de stijl en

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