Husband, Timothy B. - The Art of Illumination

Husband, Timothy B. - The Art of Illumination

Husband, Timothy B. - The Art of Illumination~The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

The fifteenth centruy manuscript, the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, is the only manuscript with miniatures completed entirely by the famous Limbourg brothers (Herman, Paul, and Jean). Now part of the collection at The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Belles Heures have been studied by many, but no one more extensively than Timothy B. Husband, curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters. His analysis discusses the manuscript, the Limbourgs, and the royal patron Jean de France in order to certify its importance in fifteenth-century manuscript illumination. Stunning.

341pp. + full color illus., genealogy, time line, schematic chart of calendar pages, bibliography, index


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