So riddle me this: with 9000 calendars for sale on Calendars.com, why does not a single one of them feature the illustrations from Les Tres Riches Heures?I would've thought that, on the contrary, every modern calendar manufacturer would produce a Limbourg brothers calendar. And before you ask "but who would buy it?", I totally would! Specifically, I'd have bought it for my father for Christmas. Dad has a thing for paintings that feature striking skies, à la Maxfield Parrish...
or Albert Bierstadt...
so I wanted to acquaint him with the less dramatic, but equally sumptuous, skies of the Limbourg Brothers.
Images: "January" from Les Tres Riches Heures (high-res images of all 12 paintings available on Wikipedia); "Ecstasy" by Parrish; "The Oregon Trail" by Bierstadt.
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I would've thought that, on the contrary, every modern calendar manufacturer would produce a Limbourg brothers calendar. And before you ask "but who would buy it?", I totally would! Specifically, I'd have bought it for my father for Christmas.
Using Word and even a middle-of-the-road printer can give you striking results of self published stuff. A trip down to Kinkos and Viola!, er, Voila!, something for dad! Thanks for the pointer to the hi-def images
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