un site fantastique, la Web Gallery of Art

la Web Gallery of Art

En cadeau de fin d'année pour ceux qui ne le connaitraient pas, voici le lien vers un site tout simplement fabuleux pour rencontrer et partager sans modération l'histoire de l'art:

http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

en exemple:

les frères Limbourg :  les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Février 
(1412-16)
Manuscript (Ms. 65), 294 x 210 mm

Musée Condé, Chantilly

 

"LIMBOURG brothers (Herman, Jean, Paul)

Flemish painters (b. 1370-80, Nijmegen, d. 1416, Nijmegen)

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry created by the Limbourg brothers 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. "

 

 

 

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