The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.(Brief article)(Book review)

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The Art of Illumination

The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Timothy B Husband

Metropolitan Museum and Yale University Press

224pp 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 978 0 300 13671 5

Jean de France, Duc de Berry, son, brother and uncle of successive kings of France, was a notable patron of the arts, commissioning numerous treasures from gold chalices to castles, but he is remembered above all for his interest in manuscripts, especially the personal prayer books known as Books of Hours. Some time ...

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