Limbourg brothers biography sample
The three Limbourg brothers had originally worked under the supervision of Berry's brother, Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, on a Bible Moralisée and had.!
LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul)
(b. 1370-80, Nijmegen, d.
1416, Nijmegen)
Biography
Limbourg (also spelled Limburg), three Netherlandish brothers who were the most famous of all late Gothic illuminators. They synthesized the achievements of contemporary illuminators into a style characterized by subtlety of line, painstaking technique, and minute rendering of detail.
Full text of "The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry".
The sons of a sculptor, Arnold van Limbourg, they were also the nephews of Jean Malouel, court painter to the Duke of Burgundy, and are sometimes known by the name "Malouel." The brothers worked together, and although the most celebrated appears to have been the eldest brother, Pol, it is difficult to distinguish their individual styles.
About 1400 the brothers were apprenticed to a goldsmith in Paris, and between 1402 and 1404 Pol and Jehanequin were working for the Duke of Burgundy in Paris, possibly on the illustration of a Bible moralisée now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
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