1. Limbourg Brothers (Paul, Herman, Jean)
Limbourg Brothers (Paul, Herman, Jean) Tres Riches Heures The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

2. This work was made almost a hundred years after Lorenzetti’s Birth of the Virgin and yet the artists don’t seem to have developed their ability to fluently represent three-dimensional space….or do they…sporadically?

3. February
February

4. December
December

5. January
January

6. Who was the patron of this work?
Does it matter that Jean Duc de Berry—the brother of King Charles V (reigned )—crippled his subjects with the highest taxes in France?
Does this view of society—that the land and the peasants exist to produce wealth for their lord—affect the way that both the landscape and the peasans are presented by the Limbourg brothers?
By reading these images, what further arguments can the viewer make about what the Duc de Berry values?

7. June July
March
April
July

8. June July
June
July

9. August October
August
October

10. This image is generally understood to represent the Duc de Berry’s castle.

11. This image is generally understood to also represent the Duc de Berry’s castle.
September