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DE Virgin milk. Beauneveu Berry Christmas Stamp Belgium 1985
Suckling Madonna, Madonna breast feeding, of the Milk, Lactans. Brussels Hours for the Duc de Berry, by Andre Beauneveu. Michel 2249, Yvert 2197.
Dimensions: 40 x 27 mm
Miniature of 1415 by the sculptor and miniaturist André Beauneveu (Valenciennes, c.1330/1360 - Bourges, c.1403/1413), in the book 'The Fine Hours of Jean de France, Duke of Berry' (1340 - 1416), also called 'Very Fine Hours of Brussels', now in the Royal Library of Brussels.
This is one of several books of hours that the Duke of Berry commissioned to be made. Books of hours are breviaries for lay prayers that became fashionable among the nobility of the 14th and 15th centuries, being richly and lavishly decorated with miniatures and illuminations.
Miniature of 1415 by the sculptor and miniaturist André Beauneveu (Valenciennes, c.1330/1360 - Bourges, c.1403/1413), in the book 'The Fine Hours of Jean de France, Duke of Berry' (1340 - 1416), also called 'Very Fine Hours of Brussels', now in the Royal Library of Brussels.
This is one of several books of hours that the Duke of Berry commissioned to be made. Books of hours are breviaries for lay prayers that became fashionable among the nobility of the 14th and 15th centuries, being richly and lavishly decorated with miniatures and illuminations.