What are the Limbourg brothers noted for and how old were they when they died?

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The Limbourg (lam BOOR) brothers were famous Dutch artists, born in the late 1300's. They were Netherlandish manuscript illuminators, Herman, Jean (Jannequin), and Paul (Pol), all three of whom died in 1416, presumably victims of the plague or other epidemic. The Très Riches Heures is by common consent one of the supreme masterpieces of manuscript illumination and the archetype of the International Gothic style. Its most original and beautiful feature is the series of twelve full-page illustrations of the months--the first time a calendar was so lavishly treated--full of exquisite ornamentation and beautifully observed naturalistic detail. The miniatures are remarkable, too, for their mastery in rendering space, strongly suggesting that one or more of the brothers had visited Italy, and they occupy an important place in the development of the northern traditions of landscape and genre painting. Sadly, it appears that they died at the tender age of 31. http://gardenofpraise.com/art27.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/louvre/rh/glo/limburg.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbourg_brothers Nov 03 09, 8:31 PM

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