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Les trs riches heures du Duc de Berry: Fevrier (February) sef
Painting ID:: 7903
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LIMBOURG brothers
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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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Les trs riches heures du Duc de Berry: Fevrier (February) sef |
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1412-16
Illumination on vellum, 22,5 x 13,6 cm
Muse Cond, Chantilly |
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