The magnificent Hour of the Duke of Berry. July. Reaping Sheep by Brothers Limburg

The magnificent Hour of the Duke of Berry. July. Reaping Sheep by Brothers Limburg

The place is Chateau de Clay in Poitiers, possession of the duke. “The magnificent horoscope” is a monument to the art of the outgoing Autumn of the Middle Ages and is a sign of the coming Renaissance attitude.

Signs of the Early Northern Renaissance in this work: a new attitude to the world, attention to the transfer of specific life details, costume, life, as well as the display of all components in their relationship, working with the spatial environment, perspective, three-dimensional construction, competent anatomy, an attempt to depict real landscapes, the rejection of ornamental backgrounds.

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