[45] See [Plate XXXIV].
[46] See [Plate XXXV].
[47] Masaccio (born in 1401), it is believed, could not have painted the frescoes at San Clemente before 1417; perhaps even, considering his age, rather later.
[48] M. de Mely, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1912.
[49] Durrieu mentions that one of the Kings seems to have been inspired by this medal, but as a matter of fact he is faithfully copied from it.
[50] See [Plate XXXVIII].
[51] See [Plate XXXIX].
[52] It was in this castle that the Duc de Berry commissioned André Beauneveu, Pol Limbourg’s predecessor, to prepare for him a Book of Hours, subsequently completed with the assistance of Jacquemart de Hesdin. This MS., which contains a very characteristic portrait of the Duke himself, is now to be seen in the Library at Brussels. Beauneveu died in 1413, two years before the Brothers Limbourg appeared upon the horizon of French Art.
[53] See [Plate XXVI].
[54] Also called Heures d’Ailly, after its former owners.