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Illuminated manuscript page illustrating the Annunciation from the Belles Heures du Duc de Berry.. The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry, or Belles Heures of Jean de Berry (The Beautiful Hours) is an early 15th-century illuminated manuscript book of hours (containing prayers to be said by the faithful at each canonical hour of the day) commissioned by the French prince John, Duke ...
It is their first documented commission and the work seems to have been executed in Paris. Art historians are divided as to whether the Bible Moralisée (Ms. fr. 166 in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris is the same manuscript as Philip's commission; [4] although there is consensus that manuscript was executed by Jean and Pol ...
Jean Carl Pierre Marie d'Orléans (born 19 May 1965) is the current head of the House of Orléans.Jean is the senior male descendant by primogeniture in the male-line of Louis-Philippe I, King of the French, and thus according to the Orléanists the legitimate claimant to the defunct throne of France as Jean IV. [2]
A portrait of John kneeling in prayer John, Duke of Berry was the owner of the Fonthill vase, made in Jingdezhen, China, the earliest piece of Chinese porcelain documented to reach Europe, in 1338. [11] John of Berry was also a notable patron who commissioned works such as the most famous Book of Hours, the Très Riches Heures. "Like other ...
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belle Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. ISBN 978-1-58839-294-7. Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry: The Late Fourteenth Century and the Patronage of the Duke (2 Vols). London: Phaidon. pp. 44, 160– 69.
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Jean Marie was born in Paris at the Hôtel de Toulouse, Parisian townhouse of the fabulously wealthy Duke of Penthièvre.Penthièvre was the only legitimate son of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, Count of Toulouse and in turn the illegitimate son of Louis XIV of France and Madame de Montespan.
Born at the Palais d'Orléans, the present day Luxembourg Palace in Paris, he was the first and only son born to the Duke and Duchess of Orléans. His father, Gaston d'Orléans, was the youngest brother of the late Louis XIII; as such, Jean Gaston was born during the reign of his first cousin, the 11-year-old Louis XIV.