Les Très Riches Heures, a ‘book of hours’ made by artists felled by the Black Death, will be shown in France this summer
Les Très Riches Heures, a ‘book of hours’ made by artists felled by the Black Death, will be shown in France this summerA celebrated manuscript from the middle ages that inspired a Walt Disney castle but has been unseen by the public and scholars for more than 40 years will go on display in
Commissioned by John, the duke of Berry, brother of King Charles V of France, the 416-page manuscript is a “book of hours” recording prayers to be said at each canonical hour of the day, along with a calendar of church feasts and saints’ days. The book was created by three Dutch brothers, Paul, Johan and Herman Limbourg, who worked in what is now known as International Gothic style that began in Burgundy and northern Italy and spread across western– the manuscript, unfinished and unbound, passed to Berry’s cousin, the duke of Anjou. Shortly afterwards other artists, thought to include Dutchman Barthélemy d’Eyck, known as the “master of the shadows”, who was also based in Burgundy, worked on the book.
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