MINIATURIST, Flemish
(active 1510s in Ghent or Bruges)

Mayer van den Bergh Breviary

1510-15
Manuscript, 224 x 160 mm
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp

All the features that earned the Ghent-Bruges workshop its success and fame are present in the Mayer van den Bergh Breviary's miniatures. They include the margin decoration, painted in tromp-l'oeil, often with a strewn flower motif. This new brilliantly detailed observation of nature and representation of the human figure anticipates the Renaissance approach.