Les Tres Riches Heures: The 12 months comprise one section of the Tres Riches Heures manuscript. Painted between between 1412 and 1416 by the Limbourg brothers, Paul, Hermann and Jean. The brothers came from Nimwegen in Flanders. Born in the late 1370s or 1380s into an artistic family, by 1408 they had entered the service of Jean, Duc de Berry, a wealthy patrons of the arts. Several other works are attributed to them, but appear to have been lost. The three Limbourg brothers died of a sudden illness before the age of thirty in February 1416. Their brilliant colors were obtained from minerals, plants or chemicals and mixed with either arabic or tragacinth gum to bind them; vert de flambé, a green made from crushed flowers mixed with massicot, and azur d'outrême, an ultramarine blue made from crushed lapis-lazuli.
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