Master of Jouvenel

The Master of Jouvenel uses a modified form of the V-in-square map to depict the three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe) in the Mare historiarum. The horizon indicates the Earth's curvature. The choice of map type was probably designed to flatter the patron, since his initial was V (as in Vrsins).[1]

The Master of Jouvenel (French: Maître de Jouvenel) was an anonymous master illuminator active between 1447 and 1460. The painter, to whom many manuscripts are attributed, was undoubtedly at the head of a workshop, also called Groupe Jouvenel from which the Master of Boccace of Geneva came from, or the Master of Boethius. The painter owes his name to a manuscript in the Mare Historium commissioned by Guillaume Jouvenel des Ursins, for which his workshop produced 730 miniatures.[2][3]

  1. ^ Chet Van Duzer (2012), "A Neglected Type of Medieval Mappamundi and Its Re-imaging in the Mare Historiarum (BnF MS Lat. 4915, Fol. 26v)", Viator, 43 (2): 277–301, at 282–284, doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.1.102714.
  2. ^ "Master of Jouvenel des Ursins, active 1447-1460 - Medieval Manuscripts". medieval.bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Campbell, Gordon (January 15, 2009). The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195334661.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-533466-1 – via www.oxfordreference.com.