Jean Bondol

Jean Bondol, also known as Jean de Bruges, Jean Boudolf or Jan Baudolf, was a Flemish artist who became a court artist to King Charles V of France in 1368 and is documented as active between 1368 and 1381. He is best known for designing tapestries, above all the huge and important Apocalypse Tapestry series now kept at Angers, which is the only documented survival of his tapestry designs. He also painted the illuminations of the Bible historiale de Jean de Vaudetar, a French translation of the Vulgate presented to Charles V by his valet de chambre Jehan Vaudetar, completed in 1371 and now in the Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum in The Hague. His illuminations belong to a period when art in the Netherlands was moving beyond the conventions of the early fourteenth century, and his work is not behind that of his contemporaries.