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050	0		_aND3363. _bB49 2008
100	1		_aHusband, Timothy, _d1945- _eAuthor _9428
245	1	3	_aThe art of illumination : _bthe Limbourg brothers and the Belles heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry / _cTimothy Husband; J. Paul Getty Museum.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
260			_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven :Yale University Press, _c2008.
300			_axii, 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; _c30 cm.
490	0		_aMetropolitan Museum of Art.
520			_aOne of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (ca. 1405-1408/9), is the only manuscript with miniatures executed entirely by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its royal patron, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonged to the duke's large collection of prized possessions" "In this volume, the Limbourgs provided the customary components of a Book of Hours, including readings from the Gospels and prayers to the Virgin. The Belles Heures, however, was elevated to unprecedented heights by the addition of seven "picture book" insertions. These pages provided a framework for developing the Limbourgs' figural style, refining their palette, experimenting with light and surface values, and devising coherent compositional formulas that focused the dramatic charge of the image. These illuminations, both sacred and secular in subject, range from traditional scenes of Christ's life and ministry to images reflecting the turbulence of the period, such as victims struck by the plague." "Timothy B. Husband's scholarship positions the manuscript, its artists, and its patron in context with other objects in the duke's collection and the sources and inspiration of the art. He meticulously charts the components of the codex, its organization and decoration, sequence of production, and the compositional intelligence of the narrative cycles. He places the Belles Heures within the trajectory of fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, delineating the development of the Limbourgs throughout their short careers. A lyrically written central chapter in this volume describes each illumination in the Belles Heures in formal terms and provides selected transcriptions and English translations of the Latin text."--Jacket.
650		0	_aBelles heures of Jean of France, Duke of Berry _vIllustrations _xExhibitions. _9429
650		0	_aLimburg family _vExhibitions. _9430
650		0	_aLimburg family _9431
710	0		_a J. Paul Getty Museum _eAuthor _9432
710	0		_aMetropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) _9433
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