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The art of illumination : the Limbourg brothers and the "Belles Heures" of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Author: Timothy Husband; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2009.
Series: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.

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Genre/Form: Illustrations
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Named Person: Limburg family.
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Timothy Husband; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
ISBN: 9780300136715 0300136714
OCLC Number: 263294323
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 18, 2008-Feb. 8, 2009, and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 22, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010.
Description: xii, 376 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Series Title: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Responsibility: Timothy B. Husband.

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"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 Read more...

 
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