Jean de Carpentin'S Book Of Hours: The Genius of the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (Sam Fogg) - Hardcover

In the 1470s, one of the most innovative artists working in Bruges illuminated a Book of Hours for Jean Carpentin, lord of Gravile and prominent citizen of Normandy. Known as the Master of the Dresden Prayer Book after one of his other masterpieces, this artist and members of his workshop enriched the pages of Carpentin's manuscript with miniatures, historiated initials and boldly colored borders in which human figures, monsters and monkeys are framed by twisting branches of acanthus.

Alixe Bovey is the director of the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent, where she specializes in the visual culture of the later Middle Ages. Her publications include Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Manuscripts (2002), The Chaworth Roll: A Fourteenth-Century Genealogy of the Kings of England (2005), The Tacuinum Sanitatis: An Early Renaissance Guide to Health (2005).