LIMBOURG brothers
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 :. | Les trs riches heures du Duc de Berry: Octobre (October) | The Very Rich House of the Duc of Berry | Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry | The Fall and the Expulsion from Paradise sg | Peasant Interior | Related Artists: Samuel Scott1702-1772
British
Samuel Scott Gallery
(b London, c. 1702; d Bath, 12 Oct 1772). English painter. In 1725 a sea-piece ascribed to Scott appeared at auction in London. In 1727 he was appointed Accomptant in the Stamp Office, Lincoln's Inn Square, London, an office he held for 28 years at an annual salary. PoussinLes Andelys 1594 - Rome 1665 COUSIN, Jean the ElderFrench High Renaissance Painter, ca.1495-1560
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