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Art
Last Chance—The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry
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Image: Saint Jerome Extracts a Thorn from the Lion’s Paw, Fol. 186v. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416). The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, ca. 1405–1408/9. Made in Paris. The Cloisters Collection, Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Mar 2, 2010 – June 13, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Belles Heures (1405-1408/9) of Jean de Berry is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts to have survived from the late Middle Ages. Because it is currently unbound, visitors to the Met now have the unique opportunity of seeing all of the illuminated pages as individual leaves. The exhibition The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, on view through June 13, allows a deeper understanding of the manuscript, its artists – the young Franco-Netherlandish Limbourg Brothers – and its patron, Jean de France, duc de Berry. To evoke the courtly atmosphere in which the duke lived and the tastes of his royal family, the Valois, the exhibition includes a selection of related objects from public and private American collections.
