Limbourg brothers

The Gebroeders van Lymborch (EN: Limbourg brothers, modern Dutch: Gebroeders van Limburg; 1385 – 1416) were Dutch miniature painters comprising of the 3 brothers Herman, Paul, and Jean van Lymborch. They are renowned for their work in the International Gothic style, a period of art that was characterised by elegant and intricate artworks. They painted the miniatures and decorated page margins for the best-known late medieval illuminated manuscript, the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry for Jean de Berry. In the first half of 1416, Jean de Berry and the three Limbourg brothers – all not yet 30 years old – died, possibly of the plague, leaving the Très Riches Heures unfinished. An unidentified artist (possibly Barthélemy van Eyck) completed the calendar miniatures in the 1440s when the book was in the possession of René d'Anjou, and in 1485 Jean Colombe finished the work for the House of Savoy.