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...duke had an obsession with jewelry and opulent metalwork, and so one might expect all his court art to follow a pattern like that of the Limbourg brothers, who made him what must be the most famous set of miniatures in history-the Très Riches Heures du Due de Berry. A tiny portrait of the duke in the Limbourgs' lesser-known Belles Heures epitomizes their manner: the stiff figure, kneeling devoutly before a sumptuous Gothic ground of red and gold brocade, the flat silhouettes, the sharp, unatmospheric color and light. The painting is conceived as a precious...
...Book of Hours made, circa 1478, for the daughter of the last great Duke of Burgundy by a master miniaturist. His biblical figures, mock tourneys, glimpsed landscapes and rich borders decked with acanthus rolls, peacock feathers, shells and fabulous birds and beasts brilliantly profit from the example of the Limbourg brothers and Jan Van Eyck...
...high point in the art of calendar-making, if not in science, is the Zodiac Man (opposite) drawn for Jean de France, Due de Berry, between 1413-16 by the famed manuscript illuminators, the Limbourg brothers. Now one of the treasures of France's Condé Museum and a magnificent compendium of astrological lore, it was meant for the use of physicians, giving the proper time for bloodletting, purgatives, medication and even bathing. Showing a universe divided into quadrants composed of the qualities (moist, dry, cold and warm), and put in harmony with man's organs and appendages...
While the Met can show each of its treasured volumes only two pages at a time, museumgoers are likely to be both tantalized and delighted by what they see. The Duke of Berry's Belles Heures, illustrated by his personal painters, the three Limbourg brothers, breathes the freshness of morning. Embossed with gold, it sparkles with flower-bouquet hues, including the exquisite borage-blossom blue, a pigment so precious that the duke listed two pots of it among his treasures. The queen's handbook was meant to delight as well as instruct. The Nativity (see cut) introduces...