Product Description: Mécène fastueux, fils de roi, Jean de France, duc de Berry, à l’égal de son frère Charles V et de ses frères les ducs d’Anjou et de Bourgogne, collectionnera et fera réaliser, tout au long de sa vie, un très grand nombre d’œuvres d’art, connues grâce à plusieurs inventaires toujours conservés aujourd’hui...read more

Product Description: Paintings by Renaissance masters Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer, and Hans Holbein the Younger are among the works featured in this lavish volume, the first to comprehensively study the largest collection of early German paintings in America...read more

Product Description: One of the most lavishly illustrated codices of the Middle Ages, the Belle Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (ca. 1405–1408/9), is the only manuscript with miniatures executed entirely by the famed Limbourg brothers. Commissioned by its royal patron, this richly illuminated Book of Hours, intended for private devotion and now housed in The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, belonged to the duke's large collection of prized possessions...read more

Product Description: The sculpture of Tilman Riemenschneider stands at the threshold of two eras. Solidly anchored in the late Gothic tradition, it is also astonishingly daring. Riemenschneider, who was active in Wurzburg from around 1483 until 1531, was one of the first sculptors to abandon polychromy on occasion, making a conscious aesthetic decision to leave visible his favored material, limewood...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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