Annunciation, Les Belles Heures de
Jean, Duc de Berry. The Cloisters
Collection, 1954 (54.1.1, fol. 30)
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York.
tional Gothic style in France, combining courtly elegance, sumptuous coloration, and a
mixture of fanciful and remarkably naturalistic landscape settings. Although attempts
have been made to define the style of each of the brothers, these have not always been
successful, and they are generally regarded to have participated collectively on their
productions.
Robert G.Calkins
[See also: JOHN, DUKE OF BERRY; MANUSCRIPTS, PRODUCTION AND
ILLUMINATION; PHILIP THE BOLD]
Longnon, Jean, and Raymond Cazelles. The Très Riches Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York:
Braziller, 1969
Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and Their
Contemporaries. 2 vols. New York: Braziller, 1974.
——, and Elizabeth H.Beatson. The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: Braziller,
1974.
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