The Limbourg Brothers (active c. 1390–1416): Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry

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 the United States. Because it is currently unbound, all of its illuminated pages can be exhibited as individual leaves—a unique opportunity never to be repeated.

This exhibition highlights 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 places the manuscript within the broader context of Jean de Berry’s patronage and the Valois royal family.

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