Birth of the Virgin
Italian Byzantine Style Painter, ca.1280-1348 mk86
1342
Tempera on wood
188x183cm
Siena ,Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Painting ID:: 33321
LIMBOURG brothers circa 1645(1645)
Medium oil on canvas
cyf Birth of the Virgin 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
