French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries (2 vols.) (The Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures)

French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Limbourgs and Their Contemporaries (2 vols.) (The Franklin Jasper Walls Lectures) by Meiss, Millard. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807607343.

A catalogue raisonné. Concerned with the period 1400-1425 when the passion of French painters and their patrons for pictures in books made it one of the high points in the history of illuminated manuscripts. Here the author presents the first comprehensive study of the Limbourg brothers who, in the service of the Duke of Berry, produced the famous BELLES HEURES, and TRÉS RICHES HEURES as well as several earlier works. The work of the Rohan Master is also discussed. Volume One is the text volume, which also contains several appendices, chapter notes, a bibliography and index. Volume Two is devoted to the 898 illustrations, 35 in color, including all the miniatures of the Limbourgs in the TRÉS HEURES RICHES, and all their work in an earlier bible. The illustrations are indexed, with the present locations of the original manuscripts given. Dust jackets price clipped. x, 533; unpaginated. cloth decorated with heraldic medallion, dust jackets.. 4to..