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how grows your garden: vegetable patch kids
Andre Le Notre laid out many noble gardensĀ which soon became world famous. Versailles in particular was envied by every prince in Europe. And in the century and more that followed, these royal gardens were copied all over the civilized … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Le Notre, Capability Brown, Chateau versailles gardens, edward white garden, english landscape gardens, francis bacon on gardens, francois boucher paintings, Lancelot Brown, Les tres riches heures du duc de berry, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, renaissance gardens, reverend william hanbury, sir jeremiah colman, Tres Riches Heures
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the black plague: groaning in sympathy
The Black Death came out of Central Asia killing one third of the European population. And among the survivors a new skepticism arose about life and God and human authority. Most fourteenth-century people regarded their doctor with tolerance and respect … Continue reading
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Tagged Duc de Berry, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein, Holbein, Jean Duc de Berry, Josse Lieferinxe, Limbourg Brothers, Skip Knox, Tres Riches Heures, William Langer
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Attics of their mind
Painters across the centuries, the millennia, have always conjured out of their imaginations, fantastic towers and cities which do not exist. Sometimes a product of the subconscious, and sometimes a liberal artistic freedom, these artists created a dream architecture of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Duc de Berry, Hans Memling, Hartman Schedel, Jean Duc de Berry, Leonardo Da Vinci, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nuremberg Chronicles, Robert Hunter, The Grateful Dead, Tres Riches Heures
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PROVOKE THE OSTENTATIONS OF THE RICH
The great masters of the Books of Hours were three brothers, Pol, John and Herman, from Limbourg, in the Netherlands. After serving an apprenticeship in Paris they entered the employ of the Duc de Berry. Their masterpiece is the ”Tres … Continue reading
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Tagged Duc de Berry, Erwin Panofsky, Jean Duc de Berry, John Oliver Hand, Jonathan Alexander, Limbourg Brothers, Martha Wolff, Maxwell Parrish, Michael Jones, Rosamond McKitterick, The Book of Hours, Tres Riches Heures
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FAR FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF PIETY
The elder uncle of Charles VI started perhaps, the greatest and most extravagant spending spree in the history of the world to that time. His collection itself was a work of art. Jean, Duc de Berry, was more intellectual than … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Beauneveu, Cartellieri historian, Christine de Pisan, Duke of Bedford, Erwin Panofsky, Jacquemart de Hesdin, Jan van Eyck, Jan van Holland, Jean Duc de Berry, Jean Pucelle, Limbourg Brothers, Otto Cartellieri, The Book of Hours, Tres Riches Heures
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