The teen prodigies behind this groundbreaking 15th century French picture book

"In the center of the book, they're struggling with their compositional arrangements, but as they progress, they become incredibly inventive."

"In the center of the book, they're struggling with their compositional arrangements, but as they progress, they become incredibly inventive."

Curator Timothy Husband on the buy geniuses behind The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry.

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Tim Husband
Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

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The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, The Limbourg Brothers  Franco-Netherlandish, Tempera, gold, and ink on vellum, French
The Limbourg Brothers
1405–1408/1409