Eufrasia Burlamacchi

This timely exploration of the skilful illuminated manuscripts of Sister Eufrasia Burlamacchi (1478-1548) demonstrates her artistry within this sometime neglected artistic medium. Within the convent walls of San Domenico in Lucca where she lived and worked, Burlamacchi attained high levels of artistic proficiency through her knowledge of drawing and colour technique, composition, treatment of space and proportions. This book highlights that Sister Eufrasia was aware of the progress illumination underwent in contact with the artists we now include in the High Renaissance. She quickly established a style which she then passed on to younger sisters to establish a convent workshop where mutual exchange was the norm. Here, for the first time, Eufrasia Burlamacchi is recognized and discussed as an influential and gifted artist in her own right.

Product details

• Authors: Loretta Vandi
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2025
• EAN: 9781848226784
• ISBN: 978-1-84822-678-4
• No. of pages: 128
• Series: Illuminating Women Artists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, ART / Women Artists, History of Art, Renaissance art, Individual artists, art monographs, Renaissance style, Gender studies: women and girls, Religious subjects depicted in art, ART / History / European / Renaissance