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Raphael de Mercatellis, also known as Raphael of Burgundy (1437 – 3 August 1508), was a church official, imperial counsellor and bibliophile. He was the illegitimate son of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy and a woman of Venetian origins, the wife of a merchant.
The library of Mercatellis is rightly con-sidered to be historically very important. It is the earliest Netherlandish collection to reveal an extensive interest in what we may call Renaissance ideas. Even if manuscripts were rapidly becoming an old-fashioned way of communication, those in Raphael de Mercatellis's library were right up to date in
Raphaël de Mercatellis (1437–1508), one of the non-marital children of Duke Philip of Burgundy (1396–1467), became abbot of St. Bavo’s in Ghent in 1478. He patronized artists in colloquial workshops while assembling his library, rather than commissioning paintings from celebrated, and more expensive, master illuminators.
They are so-named for their most notable patron Raphaël de Mercatellis (1437–1508), an illegitimate son of Philip the Good of Burgundy who served as abbot of Saint Bavo in Ghent and became the most important humanistic bibliophile in the Low Countries.
23 de abr. de 2024 · Raphael de Mercatellis (1437-1508) – one of many (some 26) bastard children of the duke of Burgundy – was one of the most important Renaissance bibliophiles of the Low Countries. He inherited his love for books from his father, Philip the Good (d. 1467), and shared this with his half-brother, Antoine the "Grand Bâtard" (d. 1504).
23 de abr. de 2024 · The heritage of Antiquity was no less “smart, funny, and above all great fun", in Mercatellis' time as it remains today! For Raphael de Mercatellis, one of 26 or more illegitimate children that the Duke of Burgundy fathered, these stories may not have had only educational value.
12 de dic. de 2012 · One of those men, Raphael de Mercatellis, was a wealthy bibliophile abbot of the church of Saint Bavo in Ghent, which, then as now, also housed Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece. The abbot owned at least one other manuscript containing illuminations by van Wulfschkercke and Bruynruwe that shares much in common with our Book of Hours.
