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Nov 15, 2022 · Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg, Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, August, 1412-1489, Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. September is the time of grape harvest. The key two figures here are the sneaky eater and the diligent picker in a too-short shirt.
It was created between c. 1412 and 1416 for the extravagant royal bibliophile and patron John, Duke of Berry, by the Limbourg brothers. [2] When the three painters and their sponsor died in 1416, possibly victims of plague, the manuscript was left unfinished.
August from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, 1412-16, by the Limbourg brothers; the court hunt with falcons and behind harvesting. The Duc's castle at Étampes is at the rear. 22,5 x 13,6 cm.
Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Aout (August) 1412-16 Manuscript (Ms. 65), 294 x 210 mm Musée Condé, Chantilly. August. The month of hawking; the nobles, carrying falcons, are going hunting while in the background peasants are harvesting and swimming in the river. Behind them is the Chateau d'Etampes.
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 ...
Feb 8, 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. They left it unfinished at their (and the Duc's) death in 1416.
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Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry - with its subtle variation of line, painstaking technique, and minute rendering of detail - marks the highpoint of book illustration in the stylized, courtly idiom known as the International Gothic.
