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JEAN PICHORE
Jean Pichore
Saint Mary Magdalene, leaf from the Missal of Guy de Baudreuil
France, probably Paris, c. 1510-1520 |
- In the opening decades of the
16th-century, Jean Pichore (-1521) was the most successful Parisian illuminator and designer of manuscripts and printed books.
- Through his work, Pichore contributed to the success and
popularity in France of Renaissance themes.
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One of his most important early patrons was Cardinal Georges d'Amboise (1460-1510), Archbishop of Rouen. The Cardinal was an enthusiast of the Italian Renaissance, accumulating a large library of humanist texts, and it may have been he who influenced the classicising elements of the Pichore style.
(Royal Collection Trust)
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Saint Mary Magdalene |
- He was most
famous for his Book of Hours which was produced in
1500 in Paris for a French customer.
- Jean Pichore waas
master of a large commercial enterprise that produced a
considerable number of illuminated texts, both sacred and
secular.
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Sir, make me not your story.
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
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