The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries
London, Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Large quarto, two volumes, x, 533 pages and [viii] pages plus 898 plates (35 in colour).
Cloth; a fine set with the very slightly rubbed dustwrappers.
These volumes form part of the author's monumental series, 'French Painting in the time of Jean de Berry'. 'During the years 1400-25 the great patron and book collector Jean, Duc de Berry, was one of the principal figures in the development of French art. It was for him that Pol, Hennequin and Herman de Limbourg created "Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry" and "Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry" - two supreme masterpieces of one of the greatest ages of manuscript illumination ... The illustrations include all the miniatures executed by the Limbourgs for "Les Tres Riches Heures" and all their work (never previously reproduced) in an earlier Bible'.
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