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Berry
Berry , former province, central France. Bourges, the capital, and Châteauroux are the chief towns. Cattle are raised on the Champagne Berrichonne, a semiarid plateau that covers most of the region. The valleys of the Indre and the Cher rivers are rich farming areas. A part of Roman Aquitaine,... Read more
Limbourg brothers
Limbourg brothers , fl. 1380-1416, family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained as goldsmiths. They succeeded Jacquemart de Hesdin in 1411 as court painters to Jean, duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the magnificent book of hours kn... Read more
book of hours
book of hours form of prayer book developed in the 14th cent. from the prayers of clerics appended to the main service. The subjects of the miniature illustrations (see miniature painting ) were frequently derived from the appendix of the Psalter. The book of hours served as a devotional work cont... Read more
Cher
Cher river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the Massif Central and flowing generally NW across central France to join the Loire below Tours. The Berry Canal parallels part of the river. ... Read more
Armand Emmanuel du Plessis Richelieu, duc de
Armand Emmanuel du Plessis Richelieu, duc de , 1766-1822, French statesman. An émigré from the French Revolution, he served Russia as governor of Odessa (1803) and of the Crimea (1805). Made chief minister of France by King Louis XVIII after the Hundred Days (1815), he secured the qu... Read more
Charles X
Charles X 1757-1836, king of France (1824-30); brother of King Louis XVI and of King Louis XVIII, whom he succeeded. As comte d'Artois he headed the reactionary faction at the court of Louis XVI. He left France (July, 1789) at the outbreak of the French Revolution and became a leading spirit of the... Read more
Louis XVIII
Louis XVIII 1755-1824, king of France (1814-24), brother of King Louis XVI . Known as the comte de Provence, he fled (1791) to Koblenz from the French Revolution and intrigued to bring about foreign intervention against the revolutionaries. He was recognized as king by the émigrés af... Read more
Salish
Salish indigenous people of North America, also known as the Flathead, who in the early 19th cent. inhabited the Bitterroot River valley of W Montana. Their language belongs to the Salishan branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languages ). These people never prac... Read more
Vendée
Vendée , department (1990 pop. 509,356), W France, on the Bay of Biscay, in Poitou . The offshore islands of Noirmoutier and Yeu are included in the department. Largely an agricultural (dairying, cattle raising) and forested region, the Vendée has many beach resorts and fishing ports.... Read more
illumination
illumination in art, decoration of manuscripts and books with colored, gilded pictures, often referred to as miniatures (see miniature painting ); historiated and decorated initials; and ornamental border designs. Early Illumination The earliest known illustrated rolls come from Egypt; t... Read more

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Louis XVI (France) (1754 – 1793; Ruled 1774 – 1792)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World LOUIS XVI (FRANCE) (1754 –...1792) LOUIS XVI (FRANCE) (1754 –...1792), king of France. Louis-Auguste, duc de Berry was the second surviving...court, led by the duke of Choiseul and...informal prime minister Jean Fr é d é...enthusiastically supported France's ... Read more
The Limbourg Brothers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...of the French Duke of Berry. They are the...Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy...the court of Jean de France, Duke of Berry. There they...predecessor at the Duke of Berry's court, Jacquemart...Hours, for the Duke of Berry, and the Limbourg... Read more
Charles VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the troubled throne of France. Charles's minority was...his uncles, the dukes of Berry, Burgundy, and Bourbon...afflicted him — and France — for the rest of...French foreign policy. France and England were observing...strife. The governance of France again became the ... Read more
Guillaume de Machaut
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...family, and his last patron was Jean de France, Duke of Berry, the grandson of King John and brother of King Charles V of France. The Duke of Berry was one of the greatest art...Machaut's works was written for the duke under Machaut's personal supervision... Read more

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Limbourg
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ...illuminators , the brothers Herman , Jean ( Jannequin), and Pol ( Paul...Nijmegen and were nephews of Jean Malouel . In 1402 Jean and Pol were working for Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, and after Philip...Limbourgs worked for his brother Jean, Duc de Berry, remaining in his ... Read more

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The arts in France around 1400.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 4/1/2004; ; 381 words ; ...including Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, who drained...various factions within France and the second was because...successor to the throne of France. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...son was crowned king of France in Reims Cathedral, thanks...exhibitions in other parts of France, under the group ... Read more
Limbourg Brothers: Tres Riches Heures, October. (Masterpiece of the Month).
Magazine article from: Instructor (1990); 10/1/2002; ; 422 words ; About the Artwork * Duke Jean de Berry of 15th century France was the greatest art lover of the medieval world. He owned an impressive collection of beautiful handmade books, including Tres...About the Artists * The calendar images, created between 1412 and 1416, are attributed to the Limbourg ... Read more
Patronage and the Burgundian court (1364-1419).
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...1364 of Philip the Bold as duke of Burgundy, the duchy of Burgundy...The fourth and last reigning duke of Burgundy of the Valois line...the battlefield near Nancy, France, leaving no male issue. Thus...through representations of the duke and his court in the miniatures...associated with two of his ... Read more