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Université de Montréal rector Daniel Jutras today officially opened UdeM’s new campus in Brossard. Among the guests in attendance were Quebec's minister of higher education, Pascale Déry, and Brossard mayor Doreen Assaad.Located in Solar Uniquartier
Limbourg brothers, Limbourg also spelled Limburg, three Dutch brothers who are the best-known of all late Gothic manuscript illuminators. Herman (b. c. 1385, Nijmegen, duchy of Gelre [now in Gelderland, Netherlands]—d. February? 1416), Paul (Pol) (b. c. 1386/87, Nijmegen—d. February? 1416), and Jean (Johan) (b. c. 1388, Nijmegen—d. February? 1416) were among the first illuminators to render specific landscape scenes (such as the environs and appearance of their patron’s castles) with great accuracy and sensitivity. Together they synthesized the innovations of other illuminators and de...
DUBAI: A Sotheby’s auction in London on Wednesday saw a rare folio set a new record for the most expensive Islamic object or work on paper ever sold by the auction house. The Shah Tahmasp Shahnameh was sold for $9,091,179, surpassing the previous record set by another leaf from the same manuscript at Sotheby’s in 2011. Rustam recovers Rakhsh from Afrasiyab’s herd, illustrated
The most lavishly illustrated copy of the 10th-century poem in existence, it was illustrated over the course of two decades from 1520 to 1540 by artists in the royal atelier.
Limbourg brothers, three Dutch brothers who are the best-known of all late Gothic manuscript illuminators. Herman (b. c. 1385, Nijmegen, duchy of Gelre [now in Gelderland, Netherlands]—d. February? 1416), Paul (Pol) (b. c. 1386/87, Nijmegen—d. February? 1416), and Jean (Johan) (b. c. 1388,