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This catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Groeninge Museum,
Bruges, which celebrated one of the greatest European artists of
the late fourteenth century, Andre Beauneveu, apparently born in
Valenciennes c. 1335. Active throughout the Southern Netherlands,
his reputation grew swiftly and in 1364 he was commissioned by the
King of France, Charles V, to create a group of royal tombs at St
Denis. In the 1370s he oversaw another ambitious funerary project,
for Louis de Male, Count of Flanders, at Courtrai, whilst
continuing to undertake major civic commissions at Ypres, Mechelen
and his home town of Valenciennes. Beauneveu spent the last years
of his career in Bourges working for the most celebrated royal
patron of all, Jean, Duc de Berry. The extraordinary scope of
Beauneveu's talent was fully exploited by Jean de Berry, for whom
he produced manuscript illuminations, made designs for stained
glass and oversaw the construction of his chateau at
Mehun-sur-Yevre. However, it is primarily his unrivalled skill in
the handling of stone which gives Beauneveu such significance, not
only in the context of Northern sculpture but also for the arts of
Europe as a whole. The known sculptural oeuvre of Beauneveu,
however, is not substantial. The reappearance of the Virgin and
Child once in the collection of Eduoard Aynard at the Abbey of
Fontenay and its new attribution to this sculptor "who had no
better nor equal in any land" dramatically increases our knowledge
of his work and must entail a rethink of many histories of French
and Flemish art in the fourteenth century, for we now have not two
but three life-sized figures from which our view of his style and
achievements can be formed.
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