Les Très Riches Heures

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

What is "Très Riches Heures"?


Wikipedia tells us:

The Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (or simply the Très Riches Heures) is probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century, "le roi des manuscrits enluminés" ("the king of illuminated manuscripts"). It is a very richly decorated Book of Hours, containing prayers to be said by the lay faithful at each liturgical hour of the day. The Très Riches Heures consists of 416 pages, of which about half are full page illustrations that are among the high points of International Gothic painting in spite of their small size. There are 300 enriched capital letters.

Some pages of this treasure can be found online:
• "Les Très Riches Heures" at Christus Rex
• "Les Très Riches Heures" at the Webmuseum. I respectfully quote the information given at the WebMuseum of Art for each month.
• Jean Limbourg at the Art Renewal Center

I love illuminated manuscripts and "Les Trés Riches Heures" is one of the most beautiful manuscripts of all times. I feel that icons can draw your attention to details of the artwork that you would not have noticed otherwise. For the time being I made ten icons for each of the months, with more to follow as I have time. I am posting each month in a separate entry, to make viewing them easier.

Teaser:



Comment, credit (The Limbourg Brothers; JunoMagic) and enjoy!

(And of course you can customize the bases in any way you'd like, but as even the bases required a good deal of work, I think it would be fair to give me credit for them, too.)

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January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

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The links for the month now go to my personal journal (juno_magic).

Comments

[spudzilla.livejournal.com]

Wow, these are all beautiful! I have taken some, will credit.

Thanks for sharing them!

[redatt.livejournal.com]

I have both book and aesthetic icons friended -- I'm sure glad that I don't have you friended, too, because 26 notifications in the space of just a few minutes that my f'list has been updated is annoying enough.

Could you perhaps just make one post and link back to your own journal, or spread the posts out over several days, if you ever come up with anything like this again? All I've got on my friends page at the moment are your icons.

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Uh sorry! I'll go and remove my posts from aesthetic_icons at once.

But LJ won't let me post everything in one post. I tried - and everything gets cut into pieces. I just wanted to have the posts close together, so you can view them in a row.

Sorry, again.

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Thank you :o)

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

No problem; I simply forgot that most ppl probably don't have links for "persons only" and "communities only"... I just hope there are not too many people out to kill me right now. Thank you for being so friendly about my blunder.

[caitirin.livejournal.com]

You've... actually got that same LONG string in book_icons too.

Which makes it really hard to read a f'list.

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry if that bothers you.

But as I said, LJ would not let me post everything in one post. So I thought it would make more sense to sort the icons according to the months, and that unfortunately makes for 12 posts. As far as I know there's no limit for posts in this community, although there *was* objection to posting only links AFAIK - which is why I originally took the time to post the icons here at all instead of submitting only a link back to my journal. And rest assured, I won't post anything like this again.

BTW did you know that you can use "friends filters" to look only at specific journals on your flist?

[redatt.livejournal.com]

Heh! I'm sure nobody's out to kill you. They are lovely icons, after all :o)

I can do all sorts of nifty things with my f'list, but none of them would solve the problem of space, time and the pain of more scrolling and clicking than necessary ;o)

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

LJ just needs to allow for longer texts and more pics in one and the same entry...

[tickingtimeless.livejournal.com]

those are quite lovely.

[eldritchhobbit.livejournal.com]

These are AMAZING! I saved a ton of them - mostly the first of each set and the one(s) with monthly names - and I will credit as you requested. What beautiful work you've done! Many thanks for sharing these.

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much. It was a joy to make them, but to share them is even better. :-)

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

Those are lovely. I like illuminated manuscripts, too, and you're right that making them into icons makes you notice details you wouldn't have caught. I once had a Book of Kells manuscript page as my desktop.

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

But please, don't give me more ideas! ;-)

Oh - you could make some icons of the Book of Kells!

[parallactic.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to make icons. I'm just here for the eye candy. :)

[aswanargent.livejournal.com]

These icons are absolutely gorgeous. I don't know yet which ones I'm going to take, but will come back and comment again when I've made up my mind. And of course I'll credit you.

[my-cnnr.livejournal.com]

just beautiful...can't decide which to save (maybe all?)...will credit of course...thanks so for posting...

[rose-in-shadow.livejournal.com]

Wow! These are lovely! I bet the folks at historicons would appreciate the sight of these too :-).

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'll have to think about this. I don't want to swamp anyone... and there are many people who are so very touchy about finding the same icons in more than one or two communities...

I'm really doing this for fun, I don't want to get into a hassle about icons of all things.

[rose-in-shadow.livejournal.com]

The folks at historicons are very permissive. I've cross-posted my icons there several times. And don't worry about swamping. We just love to see good historical icons and you fit the bill :-).

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

If you say so...