The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

Learn more about the exhibition The Art of Illumination on view at the Met March 2 - June 13, 2010: http://blog.metmuseum.org/artofillumination/

The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
On view in the Robert Lehman Wing
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 2 - June 13, 2010

The Belles Heures (1405 - 1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated. The exhibition will elucidate the manuscript, its artists—the young Franco-Netherlandish Limbourg Brothers—and its patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry. A select group of precious objects from the same early fifteenth-century courtly milieu will place the manuscript in the context of the patronage of Jean de Berry and his royal family, the Valois.

Producer and Director
Christopher Noey

Camera
Wayne de la Roche
Jessica Glass

Editor
Kate Farrell

Sound Recording
David Raymond

Production Assistants
Stephanie Wuertz
Robyn Schwalb

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Education

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[LaHaineRGR175]

@cfh99nyc Yahshua Messiah did not start the doctrines of Free will, Original Sin, Trinitarianism, Purgatory, Sun-day worship, veneration of idols/graven images, Luciferianism. All these are doctrines of institutions such as Catholicism/Protestantism and have no basis in Biblical Christianity. You must have him confused with Jesus/Mithras/Apollo/Sol Invictus....silly

[cfh99nyc]

@LaHaineRGR175 it was started by him silly. thats what

[KevinRuzHerrera]

QUICKSCOPING IN MW2 IS COOLER 'derp'

[LaHaineRGR175]

@jesuisjedwardly What does Catholicism have to do with Christianity or better yet the teachings of Yahshua Messiah?

[jesuisjedwardly]

@LaHaineRGR175 this 'idolatry' you speak of is exquisite art! you are incorrect that true christians did not use this to warship. in the medieval era Catholicism used art to inspire the power of god.

[LaHaineRGR175]

Idolatry has no place in Christianity, this is nothing more than contemporary Babylonian propaganda and Mithras worship

[pulchellissima]

Absolutely brilliant!

[marcusunlimited]

Excellent! :)

[LindsayCurran]

Discovering this brief, but excellent, introduction to this remarkable exhibition this morning - makes me wish I could be there! Amazing to be able to see this! Many thanks!

[maryg1410]

Great exhibition! I just went to see it this past weekend