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- Très Riches Heures
- International Gothic
- Duke of Berry
- Limbourg Brothers
The Très Riches Heuresis the name of probably the most famous book of hours in the world. A book of hours is a prayer book with texts for each liturgical hour of the day. It often contains psalms, masses, and calendars, as we can see here. 12 pages dedicated to each month show the usual activities and customs of the month, as well as the zodiac sig...
The illuminations are a clear example of the late International Gothic style. We can see it in typically elongated figures, little or mistaken spatial depth, and elaborate ornamentation and attention to detail. Check out the lavish costumes from the January page: the Duke is sitting on the right, he is wearing a furry hat and a blue robe, colored w...
Duke of Berry was a great connoisseur of arts and a fond collector of jewels, castles, works of art, and exotic animals. He owned chateaux such as Saumur and Bicetre (also depicted on the pages of the calendar), rubies weighing up to 240 carats, ostriches, camels, and a magnificent collection of various books like astronomical treatises, maps, and ...
Paul, Hermann, and Jean were born in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in the late 1370s or 1380s to an artistic family. Their father was a wood sculptor and their uncle was an artist working variously for the French Queen and for the Duke of Burgundy. The brothers had entered into his service by 1402. In 1405, after the Duke’s death, they entered the service...
When the Pomeroy family began to build Berry Pomeroy Castle in the later 15th century, they had already owned the manor of ‘Berri’ for over 400 years. It had originally been granted by William the Conqueror to Ralf de Pomaria, a Norman knight from La Pommeraye near Falaise.
When Philip the Bold died in 1404, the future was uncertain for both the brothers and their uncle, but eventually Philip’s brother—Jean de France, duc de Berry (John, Duke of Berry)—took on the still teenaged boys.
JOHN BERRY, DUKE OF (1340-1416), third son of John II., king of France and Bonne of Luxemburg, was born on the 30th of November 1340 at Vincennes. He was created count of Poitiers in 1356, and was made the king's lieutenant in southern France, though the real power rested chiefly with John of Armagnac, whose daughter Jeanne he married in 1360.
