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Last Name Bourdichon

Given Name Jean

alt. Names J. B. ; Jehan / Giovanni Bourdichon ;

Marriage 1: Barbe Collebarbe (14xx-1xxx) ; 2: Catherine Chambellan (14xx-1xxx)

Children daughter Françoise Bourdichon (14xx-1xxx)

Year born 1457 c. in Tours

Year died 1521

Place of death Tours

Father's occupation

Relatives councillor of Francis I, Jean Perrigault (1xxx-1xxx) (son-in-law) ;

Education pupil of Jean Fouquet (1xxx-1xxx)

Country of Activity France

Worked for Bourdichon: Book of Hours (1515/ 1508) ; Bourgeois: Book of Hours (1483-98) ;

Patronage court painter for kings Louis XI, Charles VIII, Louis XII, François I ; Anne of Brittany ; Charlotte of Savois

Collaborators successor to Jean Fouquet (14xx-1481) ; Jean Bourgeois(14xx-1xxx) ;

Techniques botanical and zoological illumination ; gold plate, panel painting, and tempera ; designs for stained glass windows, coins

Sample(s) http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=2869&handle=li ;

Archival sources J. Paul Getty Museum ; Victoria & Albert Museum ; Innsbruck University Library ;

Published sources AKL 13 1996: 361 ; ThB 4 1910: 456 ; W. Blunt & S. Raphael: Illustrated herbal 1979: 96 ; Pinault 1991: 13f. ;

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