The Limbourg brothers : : reflections on the origins and the legacy of three illuminators from Nijmegen / / edited by Rob Duckers, Pieter Roelofs.

• TeilnehmendeR: Duckers, Rob.; Roelofs, Pieter.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill eBook titles 2009
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages) :; illustrations (chiefly color)
• Notes: Contains papers from a conference held in Nijmegen, Nov. 17-18, 2005, at the end of the exhibition The Limbourg brothers : Nijmegen masters at the French court (1400-1416), held Aug. 26-Nov. 20, 2005.

Although the Nijmegen artists Herman, Paul and Jean de Limbourg were barely thirty years old when they suddenly died in 1416, they already had a formidable career behind them. Now, almost six hundred years after their creation, the colourful and highly refined miniatures in the Belles Heures and Trè...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Materials / P. Roelofs and R. Dückers
• Introduction: The Homecoming Of The Limbourg Brothers / P. Roelofs and R. Dückers
• Some Portraits By Johan Maelwael, Painter Of The Dukes Of Burgundy / Victor M. Schmidt
• The Belles Heures Of Jean De France, Duke Of Berry Manuscript And The Question Of The Artists’ ‘Hands’ / Margaret Lawson
• Likeness, Loyalty, And The Life Of The Court Artist: Portraiture In The Calendar Scenes Of The Très Riches Heures / Stephen Perkinson
• A Pilgrim’s Additions. Traces Of Pilgrimage In The Belles Heures Of Jean De Berry / Hanneke Van Asperen
• Was Kann Man Aus Den Belles Heures Über Dielimburgs Lernen? / Eberhard König
• Guelders-France. Another Connection Around 1400 / Herman Th. Colenbrander
• A Close Encounter? Th E Limbourg Brothers And Illumination In The Northern Netherlands In The First Half Of The Fifteenth Century / Rob Dückers
• The Master Of Guillebert De Mets, Philip The Good, And The Breviary Of John The Fearless / Gregory T. Clark
• Notes On Contributors / P. Roelofs and R. Dückers
• Name Index / P. Roelofs and R. Dückers.