The Limbourg Brothers

by Duckers, Rob; Roelofs, Pieter

• ISBN13: 9789004175129
• ISBN10: 9004175121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-03-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

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 Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry still speak vividly to our imagination. In 2005 Museum Het Valkhof in Nijmegen presented the exhibition The LimbourgBrothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416) . This was the first time that original miniatures fromfour manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellentopportunity to invite prominent scholars to share their views on the art of the Limbourg brothers during a two-dayconference. This publication presents in written form the conference papers delivered by some of the leading scholars in the field. In that respect, the volume acts as an addendum to the catalogue.Contributors are Hanneke van Asperen, Gregory T. Clark, Herman Th. Colenbrander, Rob Dückers, Eberhard König,Margaret Lawson, Stephen Perkinson, Pieter Roelofs and Victor M. Schmidt.

Author Biography

Rob Dckers (1972) studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at Radboud University Nijmegen and Codicology at Leiden University. He specializes in medieval codices and in ecclesiastical art, publishing regularly in both fields. He was co-curator of the exhibition 'The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court 1400-1416'. Dckers is attached to Emerson College European Center and to the treasury at the Basilica of Saint Servatius in Maastricht. Pieter Roelofs (1972) studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has been Curator of Seventeenth Century Dutch Painting at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam since 2006. Roelofs has been involved in a variety of exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad and has published on a wide range of art-historical themes. In 2005 he was co-curator and project manager of the exhibition 'The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court 1400-1416'.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Homecoming of the Limbourg Brothers	p. 1
Some Portraits by Johan Maelwael, Painter of the Dukes of Burgundy	p. 5
The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists' 'Hands'	p. 19
Likeness, Loyalty, and the Life of the Court Artist: Portraiture in the Calendar Scenes of the Très Riches Heures	p. 51
A Pilgrim's Additions. Traces of Pilgrimage in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry	p. 85
Was kann man aus den Belles Heures über die Limburgs lernen?	p. 105
Guelders-France. Another Connection around 1400	p. 131
A Close Encounter? The Limbourg Brothers and Illumination in the Northern Netherlands in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century	p. 149
The Master of Guillebert de Mets, Philip the Good, and the Breviary of John the Fearless	p. 191
Notes on Contributors	p. 211
Name Index	p. 215
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