{"id":246,"date":"2017-02-08T13:46:11","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=246"},"modified":"2017-02-08T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T18:46:11","slug":"novemberdecember-vs-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/novemberdecember-vs-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"November\/December vs. The World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking at the Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures a lot over the past couple of days, and one of the questions I’ve been asking myself is why the last couple months of the calendar (completed by a different artist) are considered problematic. I guess it’s just because the brothers who did most of the work didn’t live to complete it, and people are sad for the sake of their vision. That’s all I can do to account for it, because November and December appeal to me more the other plates.<\/p>\n

Of course, my personal preference has nothing to do with their worth as judged by art historians and critics. But from my own experience I can say that these two illuminations remind me more of more modern paintings. Their shadowy nature, the encroaching woods, the dark backgrounds and red clothing, and peasants featured as protagonists all remind me a little of Dutch and German renaissance paintings.<\/p>\n

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You know, things kind of like these. November and December aren’t nearly\u00a0as sophisticated, but they’re closer, I’d say, to later art than the rest of the Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures. That might make them a poorer example of a medieval manuscript (and I will admit that they aren’t nearly as colorful), but it doesn’t make them poorer artworks. It’s to the credit of the artist that he branched out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been looking at the Tr\u00e8s Riches Heures a lot over the past couple of days, and one of the questions I’ve been asking myself is why the last couple months of the calendar (completed by a different artist) are considered problematic. I guess it’s just because the brothers who did most of the work … <\/p>\n

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