The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
March 2, 2010–June 13, 2010
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Robert Lehman Wing
The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated. The exhibition will elucidate the manuscript, its artists—the young Franco-Netherlandish Limbourg Brothers—and its patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry. A select group of precious objects from the same early fifteenth-century courtly milieu will place the manuscript in the context of the patronage of Jean de Berry and his royal family, the Valois.
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Timothy B. Husband, curator, discusses one of the great treasures of the collection, the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
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The exhibition is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Michel David-Weill Fund.
The related publication is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund.
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Related Exhibition
Also opening on March 2, The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy will feature sculpture from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, who was the nephew of Jean de Berry.
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