Shop art print and framed art The month of February from The Very Rich Hours of Duke of Berry by Brothers Limbourg

Février is a miniature by the Limbourg brothers in the book Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry. Most of the images in this book were produced between 1408 and 1416. This one in particular is 15.4 cm high and 13.6 cm wide. It is now in the Musée Condé in Chantilly. This painting depicts a farm, with the farmyard next to it and the dovecote on its right-hand side. Behind it is the forest, in which the woodcutter is depicted. Behind him, in the snowy landscape, a peasant dressed in a rough sack and with his head covered in a sack to protect him from the cold, leads a loaded donkey towards the village in the background, where the Gothic spire of the church stands out. Above, a grey sky typical of a winter landscape. Various details indicate that this is not a peasant's house as such, but rather that of the lord's steward. The lady in the left foreground is wearing a sumptuous blue dress. A bed can be seen at the back of the house, and various items of clothing hang inside, both of which indicate that this is not a peasant's house, where they slept on pallets on the floor and had no clothes other than those they were wearing. The lady in blue is lifting her skirts so that the fire can warm her legs. The two men in the background lift their clothes completely, exposing their genitals. This does not mean that this is an erotic painting, but rather that it bears witness to less prudish customs than in later centuries, since in the Middle Ages the sense of intimacy was not [...]

 

This artwork is a poster from the middle ages period. It belongs to the illumination style.

 

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