The Limbourg Brothers

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17512-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

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 Limbourg
Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)’. This was the first time that original miniatures from
four manuscripts by the Limbourg brothers were shown in the Netherlands. The exhibition formed an excellent
opportunity to invite prominent scholars to share their views on the art of the Limbourg brothers during a two-day
conference. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dückers, Rob

Roelofs, Pieter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Rob Dückers & Pieter Roelofs - Introduction: The Homecoming of the Limbourg Brothers

Victor M. Schmidt, Some Portraits by Johan Maelwael, Painter of the Dukesof Burgundy

Margaret Lawson, The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists’ ‘Hands’

Stephen Perkinson, Likeness, Loyalty, and the Life of the Court Artist: Portraiture in the Calendar Scenes of the Très Riches Heures

Hanneke van Asperen, A Pilgrim’s Additions. Traces of Pilgrimage in the Belles Heures of Jean de Berry
Eberhard König, Was kann man aus den Belles Heures über die Limburgs lernen? Eine nun gut bekannte
Handschrift

Herman Th. Colenbrander, Guelders-France. Another Connection around 1400

Rob Dückers, A Close Encounter? The Limbourg Brothers and Illumination in the Northern Netherlands in the First Half of the Fifteenth Century

Gregory T. Clark, The Master of Guillebert de Mets, Philip the Good, and the Breviary of John the Fearless

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Dückers (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'. Dückers 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 project manager and co-curator of the exhibition 'The Limbourg Brothers. Nijmegen Masters at the French Court 1400-1416'.