Associates of the Painter of Additional 15677
Artists
The Painter of Additional 15677 collaborated with several associates. Two of them painted an historiated initial each. They also provided the landscape or architectural borders around some of the main artist’s miniatures and historiated initials. The more talented associate painted the initial and border on fol. 74r as well as four other landscape borders (fols. 50r, 82r, 85r, 107r). The other associate executed the historiated initial and border on fol. 25r, and further architectural borders. One of them or a third associate painted the border with peacock feathers on fol. 14r. Numerous assistants provided the strewn-flower borders, ornamental initials and line fillers throughout the volume.
Strewn-flower border panel
The Fitzwilliam Hours includes a wide range of borders, a veritable gallery of the formats and styles admired across the Latin West around 1500. The majority showcase the hallmark of Flemish illumination since the 1480s, the panels of liquid gold or solid colours, occasionally compartmentalised, that serve as the backdrop for flowers, plants, insects and birds painted as if scattered across the surface and casting their shadows upon it.