Limburg
, the family name of three French-Flemish brothers who were painters in the late 14th and early 15th centuries. Their first names were Pol, Hermann, and Jan. After training with a Parisian goldsmith, the Limburgs were painters for the Duke of Burgundy. About 1411 they became court painters to the Duke of Berry.
The foremost miniature painters of their time, the Limburgs illuminated many manuscripts, including two books of hours (prayer books) for the Duke of Berry—Belles Heures, which illustrates the lives of several saints, and Très Riches Heures, which contains landscapes and depicts aristocratic and peasant life. (For a scene from Très Riches Heures,