부산대학교 도서관

Term referring to the manuscript illumination of the southern Netherlands (modern Belgium) from approximately the last quarter of the 15th century until the mid-16th. It was first used by Destrée (1891), who referred to ‘manuscripts decorated in the Ghent-Bruges manner’, and by Durrieu in an article of the same year. Durrieu also defined the Ghent-Bruges school as that of the Grimani Breviary (Venice, Bib. N. Marciana, MS. lat. I. 99), but this second definition has never found a niche in the study of southern Netherlandish manuscript illumination. Some thirty years later, Winkler suspected that the predominant role in Flemish illumination was taken more by Bruges than by Ghent, and he accordingly referred to the ‘Ghent-Bruges’ or ‘Bruges school’. Although the term ‘Ghent-Bruges school’ is almost universally accepted, a more accurate term would be the ‘so-called Ghent-Bruges school’, because this style of illumination was also practised in other centres; in this context Destrée in a later publication mentioned the Duchy of Brabant and the County of Hainault, although it is not clear why he referred specifically to these two areas and he did not provide any supporting evidence. Whatever the case may be, a gradual and remarkable change did indeed take place in southern Netherlandish illumination between ...