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The Limbourg brothers (Dutch: Gebroeders van Limburg or Gebroeders Van Lymborch; fl. 1385 – 1416) were Dutch miniature painters (Herman, Paul, and Jean) from the city of Nijmegen. They were active in the early 15th century in France and Burgundy, working in the International Gothic style.
It is a book of hours, which is a Christian devotional book and a collection of prayers said at canonical hours. The manuscript was created for John, Duke of Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, by Limbourg brothers Paul, Johan and Herman. [2] The book is now MS 65 in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
Known collectively as the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Jean, and Herman de Limbourg were all highly skilled miniature painters active at the end of the 14 th century and the beginning of the 15 th century. Together, they created some of the most beautiful illuminated books of the Late Gothic period.
Created between 1405 and 1408 or 1409, probably in Paris, the Belles Heures, or Beautiful Hours, a private devotional book, is one of the most sumptuous manuscripts to have come down to us from the Middle Ages. Commissioned by Jean de France, duc de Berry from the Limbourg brothers, the most gifted artists of their time, it is the only ...
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.
8 lut 2012 · It is a very richly decorated Book of Hours containing over 200 folios, of which about half are full page illustrations. It was painted sometime between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers for their patron Jean, Duc de Berry.
Thousands of books of hours made between 1250 and 1700 survive today in libraries and museums, testament to their popularity in their heyday, especially in northern Europe; from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, more books of hours were made than any other type of book.
