Dress and Illuminated Manuscripts at the Burgundian Court: Complementary Sources and Fashions (1430-1455)

International audience; Around 1430 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders and Artois, established his power in the Northern Territories of Brabant, Hainaut, and Holland-Zeeland. These events coincided with profound stylistic changes in painting in the Southern Netherlands, first in panel painting and very soon after that in book illumination. Around 1445 Philip the Good started a very active patronage of richly illuminated manuscripts, produced mainly in Flanders, Brabant, and Hainaut. From this time, a complete series of accounts from 1430 to 1455 have been handed down and their systematic study has revealed an enormous amount of information on the expenditure for cloth a…