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Craig Harbison describes the blending of realism and symbolism as perhaps "an important facet of early Flemish art". Till-Holger Borchert describes how they bestowed a "prestige which, in the first half of the 15th century, solely the workshops of the Burgundian Netherlands were able to attaining". This was partially because they produced at a decrease price, allocating different portions of the panels amongst specialised workshop members, a apply Borchert describes as an early form of division of labour. From the 12th century, specialist monastery-primarily based workshops (in French libraires) produced books of hours (collections of prayers to be said at canonical hours), psalters, prayer books and histories, as well as romance and poetry books. Through the early 19th century, the gathering of fifteenth- and 16th-century Netherlandish minimize-out, as miniatures or parts for albums, became fashionable amongst connoisseurs akin to William Young Ottley, leading to the destruction of many manuscripts. Some 16th-century painters borrowed closely from the earlier century's methods and styles. The primary era of Netherlandish masters borrowed many customs from thirteenth- and 14th-century Italian altarpieces. There was a rise in demand for printmaking (using woodcuts or copperplate engraving) and different innovations borrowed from France and southern Italy. This new freedom in controlling light results gave rise to extra exact and real looking depictions of surface textures; van Eyck and van der Weyden usually present light falling on surfaces such as jewellery, picket floors, textiles and family objects. After about 1500 a number of factors turned in opposition to the pervasive Northern type, not least the rise of Italian artwork, whose industrial enchantment started to rival Netherlandish art by 1510, and overtook it some ten years later. Tapestry manufacturing began with design. The Limbourgs' profession ended simply as van Eyck's began - by 1416 all of the brothers (none of whom had reached 30) and their patron Jean, Duke of Berry have been dead, most likely from plague.