Limbourg brothers

Herman, Paul and Johan Limbourg were nephews of the painter Jean Malouel, trained as goldsmiths and became the finest manuscript illuminators of their day. Working for Jean, Duke of Berry, they filled books of hours with minutely observed landscapes, castles and courtly life. All three died in 1416, probably of plague, leaving the Très Riches Heures unfinished; Jean Colombe completed it about seventy years later.