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ID: 500115592
 		 Record Type: Corporate Body
Limbourg Brothers (North Netherlandish illuminators, active 1400-1416)

Note: Flemish brothers active in France as illuminators. The three brothers, Pol, Jean, and Herman, came to Paris from Nijmegen around the beginning of the 15th century. Among their most renowned works are the illuminations of two manuscripts for Jean, Duc de Berry: the Belles Heures and the Trés Riches Heures, which are outstanding examples of the Late Gothic style.

Names:
Limbourg Brothers (preferred,V,display)
Limbourg family (V)
Limburg family (V)

Nationalities:
Netherlandish (preferred)
Flemish

Roles:
artists (preferred)
illuminators

Gender: not applicable

Events:
active:   1400-1416

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
member was ....  Limbourg, Herman de  
..................  (Netherlandish illuminator, active 1400-1416) [500024987]
member was ....  Limbourg, Jean de  
..................  (Netherlandish illuminator, active 1399, died 1416) [500024815]
member was ....  Limbourg, Pol de  
..................  (Netherlandish painter and illuminator, active early 15th century ) [500005726]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Corporate Bodies
 ........  Limbourg Brothers (I)

Biographies:
(North Netherlandish illuminators, active 1400-1416) ..... [VP Preferred]
(early Netherlandish illuminators, 14th-15th cs.) ..... [BHA]
(Flanders illuminators, act.1400-1416) ..... [GRLPSC]

Sources and Contributors:
Limbourg Brothers ........ [GRLPSC Preferred]
....................................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) v. 19, p. 388
....................................  Meiss, French Painting: Limbourgs (1968)
Limbourg family ........ [BHA Preferred]
...............................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
Limburg family ........ [BHA]
.............................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, GRLPSC, VP]
....................  Art Bulletin Index, 1949-1973 (1980) 1949-1973
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) v. 19, p. 388
....................  Meiss, French Painting: Limbourgs (1968)
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Kunstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon (1974)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
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