"Les armes du Souldan": une inscription arabe dans une miniature de Georges Trubert

• Autores: Sarah Flitti
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 224, 2024, págs. 8-19
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • This contribution reviews the Nasrid and Mamluk emblems adorning the frame of a portrait of the Virgin Mary in a Book of hours (Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, ms. 48, fol. 159) illuminated by Georges Trubert (doc. 1467-1508) and most probably commissioned by the Duke René of Anjou (1409-1480). Drawing on documentary evidence, the article provides new hypotheses for the origin of the frame and the decorative role played by Arabic letters in paintings and objects. Rather than an inscription copied out of ignorance for its decorative value, the décor seems to make deliberate use of the Nasrid formula perceived as a heraldic symbol emphasizing the value of the image. Stemming from the images attributed to Saint Luke, the portrait encompassed new meanings possibly related to the devotion to the Immaculate Conception