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The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists' 'Hands'

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists'... BRILL QUa!rendo 38 (2008) III-I4I ~ www.brill.nl/qua The Belles Heures of Jean de Prance, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists' 'Hands' Margaret Lawson* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sherman Fairchild Center fOr WOrk on Paper and Photograph Conservation, New York, USA Introduction I The extraordinarily beautiful book of hours, The Belles Heures ofJean de France, Duke of Berry, c. 1405-8 by the Limbourg Brothers: Herman, Paul, and Jean * The Belles Heures by Millard Meiss and Elizabeth Beatson, George Braziller, New York, I 97 4 has served as an important primary source for the conservators on The Belles Heures manuscript during the examination and treatment. Meiss and Beatson attributions to the three different Limbourg brothers were included in our written documentation although they were not always personally understood. Undertaking digital infrared photography provided us with the opportu- niry to study the drawing hands without the distraction of color and gilding. Looking at Meiss months later, it is heartening to see that our results used similar words to describe the existence of the unique characteristics of three different hands or sryles. We appear to have arrived at the same place - in some ways, a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Quaerendo Brill

The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists' 'Hands'

Lawson, Margaret
Quaerendo , Volume 38 (2-3): 111 – Jan 1, 2008
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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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BRILL QUa!rendo 38 (2008) III-I4I ~ www.brill.nl/qua The Belles Heures of Jean de Prance, Duke of Berry Manuscript and the Question of the Artists' 'Hands' Margaret Lawson* The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sherman Fairchild Center fOr WOrk on Paper and Photograph Conservation, New York, USA Introduction I The extraordinarily beautiful book of hours, The Belles Heures ofJean de France, Duke of Berry, c. 1405-8 by the Limbourg Brothers: Herman, Paul, and Jean * The Belles Heures by Millard Meiss and Elizabeth Beatson, George Braziller, New York, I 97 4 has served as an important primary source for the conservators on The Belles Heures manuscript during the examination and treatment. Meiss and Beatson attributions to the three different Limbourg brothers were included in our written documentation although they were not always personally understood. Undertaking digital infrared photography provided us with the opportu- niry to study the drawing hands without the distraction of color and gilding. Looking at Meiss months later, it is heartening to see that our results used similar words to describe the existence of the unique characteristics of three different hands or sryles. We appear to have arrived at the same place - in some ways, a

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