Flemish painters (b. 1370-80, Nijmegen, d. 1416, Nijmegen). family of Franco-Flemish manuscript illuminators. The Limbourg brothers, Pol, Jan, and Herman, were trained as goldsmiths. They succeeded Jacquemart de Hesdin in 1411 as court painters to Jean, duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the magnificent book of hours known as the Tr??s Riches Heures (c.1415; Mus??e Cond??, Chantilly). This is filled with exquisite illustrations of the daily life of the aristocracy and peasantry, including a series of calendar illuminations that are considered the finest extant examples of the International Gothic style   Related Paintings of LIMBOURG brothers :. | Birth of the Virgin | The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise | Landscape with Peasants and a Chapel | Four Figures at Table | Les trs riches heures du Duc de Berry: Octobre (October) |
Related Artists:
Henry Herbert La Thangue
British painter , 1850-1920
William Fettes Douglas
painted Artist in 1845
Albert Henry Fullwood
British, 1864-1930