Название: The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
Автор(ы): Timothy B. Husband, Margaret Lawson
Издательство: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2009
ISBN: 978-0300200225
Страниц: 390
Язык: English
Формат: PDF
Размер: 267 MB

One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belle Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (ca. 1405–1408/9), is the only manuscript with miniatures executed entirely by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its royal patron, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonged to the duke's large collection of prized possessions. The luminous scenes depicting the legends of the saints, the Hours of the Virgin, and the like, many with elaborately designed borders, exemplify the transcendent splendor of the Limbourg brothers' talents.