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Master of the Coronation of the Virgin [Coronation Master; Master of the Livre des femmes nobles et renommées]
( fl 1402–4). French illuminator. He is named after the frontispiece miniature, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin surrounded by numerous saints, of a manuscript of the revision of 1402 of the Golden Legend (392*287 mm; Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 242). Meiss assembled a corpus of works for this artist, whom he believed to have been trained in the Netherlands, from a group of manuscripts that Martens had attributed to an anonymous artist named the Master of 1402 (the rest of the group was ascribed to the MASTER OF BERRY’S CLERES FEMMES; see above). This comprises especially the Book of Hours that, according to its colophon (fol. 216v), originated at Nantes in 1402 (140*100 mm; New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., MS. M. 515); some miniatures in a Bible historiale mentioned in the inventory of Jean, Duc de Berry, in 1402 (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 159); Hayton de Courcy’s Fleur des histoires de la terre d’Orient (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 12201), one of three copies acquired by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, in 1403; and Boccaccio’s Des cleres et nobles femmes (Paris, Bib. N., MS. fr. 598), which Jean de Berry received in February 1404. De Winter rejected the designation ‘Coronation Master’ and chose the name Master of the Livre des femmes nobles et renommées, in whose oeuvre he included the above-mentioned works.
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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