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Simon Bening (1483-1561)
Aliases: Simon Benninck; Simon Benninck
Professions: Illuminator
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MINIATURE BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
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FANTASTIC WATER TOURNAMENT, on a leaf from a Book of Hours, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
Simon Bening Biography
(b ?Ghent, ?1483; d Bruges, 1561). Son of (1) Sanders Bening. He was perhaps the most celebrated illuminator of his time. By 1530 the Portuguese diplomat and humanist Damião de Goes had extolled him as the best craftsman in his line; Francisco de Holanda, also Portuguese, wrote in similar terms two decades later. Simon Bening is mentioned not only by the 16th-century Flemish historians Denis Harduyn and Antonius Sanderus, but also by Vasari and Lodovico Guicciardini.
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