The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry - Hardcover

Husband, Timothy B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300136714 ISBN 13: 9780300136715

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009

Synopsis

One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures (1405 1408/9) is the only manuscript executed in its entirety by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its magisterial patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters at the Metropolitan Museum, counted among 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Timothy Bates Husband is Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Review:

"[A] beautifully produced book."--Margaret Goehring (Margaret Goehring Renaissance Quarterly)

"A lavish publication...[The Art of Illumination] is an authoritative...monographic manuscript studym providing an in-depth look at one of the most luxurious manuscripts in existence."--Martha Easton, Speculum--A Journal of Medieval Studies (Martha Easton Speculum--A Journal of Medieval Studies)

About this edition

• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0300136714
• ISBN 13: 9780300136715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376