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 this country. Because it is currently unbound, it is possible to exhibit all of its illuminated pages as individual leaves, a unique opportunity never to be repeated. The exhibition will elucidate 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 will place the manuscript in the context of the patronage of Jean de Berry and his royal family, the Valois.
Timothy B. Husband, curator, discusses one of the great treasures of the collection, the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
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The exhibition is made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Michel David-Weill Fund.
It was organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
The catalogue is made possible by the Michel David-Weill Fund.
