ParisianGothic era manuscript illuminator, active 1320-1350. His style is characterized by delicate figures rendered in grisaille accented with touches of color. Pucelle's most famous work is the Book of Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France, ca. 1324-1328. The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... Besides its original meaning, of or relating to the Goths, a Germanic tribe and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, the word Gothic has been used to refer to distinctly different things: From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of rough, barbarous), it conveyed the opposite... An illuminated manuscript is a manuscript, often of a religious nature, in which the text is supplemented by the addition of colourful ornamentation, such as decorated initials, borders and the like. ... Grisaille (Fr. ... Jeanne dEvreux ( 1310- 1371) was the third wife of King Charles IV of France. ...
Jean, Duc de Berry, the third son of Jean II, le Bon, King of France (reigned 1350-1364), was born on November 30, 1340, in the Chateau de Vincennes.
When the murder of Louis d'Orléans in 1407, and the threatening ambitions of Jean sans Peur, Duc de Bourgogne, forced the Duc de Berry to commit himself politically, he was immediately considered the head of the "Armignacs," an anti-Burgundian faction bitterly hated by the people of Paris.
Jean de Berry's most passionate interest was in jewels and works of art, which took the greatest pains to find.
Later in the century the German sculptors were responsible for a new type of the mourning Virgin Mary, seated and holding on her lap the dead body of Christ, the so-called Pietà .
In the second quarter of the century, Parisian manuscript illumination was given a new direction by JeanPucelle.
As a result of this diffusion of artistic currents, a new pictorial synthesis emerged, known as the International Gothic style, in which, as foreshadowed by Pucelle, Gothic elements were combined with the illusionistic art of the Italian painters.
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