Matthew Paris, St. Albans, London, and the leaves of the Life of St. Thomas Becket

Author

Morgan, Nigel

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Burlington magazine. 1988, Num. 1019, Vol. 130, p. 85-96, 10 ill. (3 col.)

ISSN

0007-6287

Abstract (en)

On the four surviving leaves of an illuminated Life of S. Thomas Becket (J. Paul Getty Jr. collection; British Library MS Loan 88). Attributes these to an anonymous London artist working in the 1230s or slightly later, and suggests the manuscript was the model for a lost life of the saint by Matthew Paris ca.1245. Concludes that the leaves seem to provide the best evidence that a format for illustrated saints' lives was first established at a center other than Saint Albans, and that it was taken up by Matthew Paris for his own illustrated versions.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Pictorial arts -- Manuscript illumination -- United Kingdom
• Saints' lives
• Manuscript illumination
• Great Britain
• London (GBR)
• Saint Albans (GBR)
• Getty, J. Paul II, b.1932
• Collections
• Manuscripts
• Life of S. Thomas Becket
• British Library||London (GBR)
• MS Loan 88 (Life of S. Thomas Becket)
• Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Enluminure -- Royaume-Uni
• Vie des saints
• Enluminure
• Grande-Bretagne
• London (GBR)
• Saint Albans (GBR)
• Collections
• Manuscrits
• Vie de saint Thomas Becket
• British Library||London (GBR)
• MS Loan 88 (Vie de saint Thomas Becket)
• Paris, Matthew, 1200-1259

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19910401-00449108

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