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The Magi
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Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry -
Chantilly, Musée Condé
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Le duc de Berry à table. Détail d'une miniature
de ses Très Riches Heures (janvier)
This book of hours is one of the most famous and
priceless books of the world. It distinguishes
itself by the beauty of the script itself, the
ornate initials and the miniatures in the manner
of panel paintings. The manuscript was not
finished until 70 years after the death of the
artist Limburg in 1416.
Très Riches Heures of the Duke of Berry Musée
Condé, Chantilly, Ms. 65
Nativity
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Nativity - details
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The Annunciation to the shepherds
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Notre-Dame de Paris
The Meeting of the Magi
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The Adoration of the Magi, 1408
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The Flight into Egypt - The miracles of the palm
tree
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Paradise, Folio 126rm
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Jean, Duc de Berry 1340-1416, was the third of
four sons born to King John II of France.
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Jean de France, duc de Berry. Statue dans la
cathédrale de Bourges
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
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Les Petite Heures (The little hours) was
commissioned by the duke de Berry in 1373.
Presently, this book is part of the special
collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale in
Paris.
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The Très Belles Heures de Notre-Dame is a former
book made for John, duke of Berry (1340-1416)
between 1389 and 1409, and now divided into three
books  the book of hours in the Bibliothèque
Nationale de France (NAL 3093), the missal now in
Turin (Museo Civico d'Arte, ms inv n47), and a
prayer book formerly in Turin and now destroyed
(Turin Biblioteca Nazionale, K.IV.29)
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The Belles Heures is one of the most celebrated
manuscripts of the Middle Ages and very few books
of hours are as richly decorated as it. The
manuscript remained in the possession of Berry
until his death in 1416. Afterwards it was
purchased by Yolande of Aragon, the Queen of
Sicily and Duchess of Anjou. In 1954 it was
purchased by J.D. Rockefeller Jr. from the Baron
Maurice Rothschild with the intention that it be
given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York
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Nativity 1408-1409
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The Annunciation to the Shepherds
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The Adoration of the Magi, Folio 54vL
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The Presentation in the Temple, Folio57r
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The Massacre of the Innocents, Folio 59v Details
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The Flight into Egypt, Folio 63r
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Mass of the Virgin
Mass for All Saints
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Prayer for Travelers
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Completed by 1408 or 1409, probably in Paris,
"The Belles Heures," a private devotional book,
was the first of several sumptuous manuscripts
commissioned by the duke of Berry from the
Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jean, and Herman. It is
perhaps the only virtually complete and
stylistically consistent prayer book to survive
from the duke's extraordinary library. The richly
illustrated text is amplified by unusual cycles
reflecting the duke's personal interests. Using a
luminous palette, the artists blended an intimate
Northern vision of nature with Italianate modes
of figural articulation. The keen interest in the
natural world and the naturalistic means of
representing it, so striking in ninety-four
full-page and fifty-four column illuminations,
foreshadow the work of Jan van Eyck and the
ensuing generations of outstanding
fifteenth-century painters in the South
Netherlands.
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Text and pictures Internet All copyrights belong
to their respective owners Presentation Sanda
Foisoreanu  
2012
Sound Corul Madrigal ? Cei trei Magi
? Colo sus, sus ? O, ce veste minunata
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