The duke and the peasant
Subtitle: life in the Middle Ages : the calendar pictures in the Duc de Berry's Très riches heures
By: by Wendy Beckett ; [translated from the German].
Contributors: Berry, Jean de France, duc de, 1340-1416.
Series: Adventures in art
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Très riches heures du duc de Berry -- Illustrations -- Juvenile literature.; Très riches heures du duc de Berry.; Books of hours -- Illustrations -- Juvenile literature.; Seasons in art -- Juvenile literature.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval -- France -- Juvenile literature.; Illumination of books and manuscripts, French -- Juvenile literature.; Books of hours -- Pictorial works.; Civilization, Medieval.; Seasons in art.; Illumination of books and manuscripts.; Art appreciation.
Description: A detailed account in text and illustrations of the lives of peasants and nobles through the changing seasons as found in the calendar pictures from the book of hours owned by Duc de Berry, a fourteenth-century French nobleman.