Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2010
Publication Title
Art History
Abstract
The article focuses on the manuscript Douce 195, which is a late fifteenth-century copy of the poem "Roman de la Rose," that contains nine images for the poem's Pygmalion myth digression. According to the article, the manuscript was produced by the illuminator and court artist Robert Testard for Duke Charles d'Orleans. The differences between the story of Pygmalion as it is told in the text of the "Roman de la Rose" and in Testard's miniatures in the manuscript are explored. It is argued that the Pygmalion sequence represents Testard's reflections on the changing status of the artist and the work of art.
DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00721.x
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
This is the accepted version of the following article: Bleeke, Marian. "Versions of Pygmalion in the Illuminated Roman de la Rose (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 195): The Artist and the Work of Art." Art History 33, no. 1 (February 2010): 28-53., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8365.2009.00721.x/abstract
Recommended Citation
Bleeke, Marian. "Versions of Pygmalion in the Illuminated Roman de la Rose (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 195): The Artist and the Work of Art." Art History 33, no. 1 (February 2010): 28-53.
Volume
33
Issue
1
