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LIMBOURG brothers
Flemish painters (b. 1370-80, Nijmegen, d.
1416, Nijmegen).
family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained as goldsmiths. They succeeded Jacquemart de Hesdin in 1411 as court painters to Jean, duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the magnificent book of hours known as the Tr??s Riches Heures (c.1415; Mus??e Cond??, Chantilly). This is filled with exquisite illustrations of the daily life of the aristocracy and peasantry, including a series of calendar illuminations that are considered the finest extant examples of the International Gothic style
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Painting ID:: 7916
Les trs riches heures du Duc de Berry g
c. 1416
Illumination on vellum
Mus??e Cond??, Chantilly
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Painting ID:: 7918
The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise sg
1415-16
Vellum, 29 x 21 cm (whole folio)
Mus??e Cond??, Chantilly
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Painting ID:: 19944
The medieval Louvre is in the background of the October calendar page (mk05)
The medieval Louvre is in the background of the October calendar page of the Tres Riches Heures of the Duc de Berry
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Painting ID:: 32375
The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise
1415-16
Vellum, 29 x 21 cm
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Painting ID:: 40166
The Very Rich House of the Duc of Berry
mk156
January
1412-1416
22.5x13.6cm
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LIMBOURG brothers
Flemish painters (b. 1370-80, Nijmegen, d.
1416, Nijmegen).
family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained as goldsmiths. They succeeded Jacquemart de Hesdin in 1411 as court painters to Jean, duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the magnificent book of hours known as the Tr??s Riches Heures (c.1415; Mus??e Cond??, Chantilly). This is filled with exquisite illustrations of the daily life of the aristocracy and peasantry, including a series of calendar illuminations that are considered the finest extant examples of the International Gothic style
. Related Artists to LIMBOURG brothers: | William Aiken Walker | Callisto Piazza | OUDRY, Jean-Baptiste | FLORIS, Frans | PEETERS, Clara |
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