Albrecht Dürer

male, deceased (1528)
Artist author, Manuscriptilluminators, From Nuremberg, Renaissance painter, Walhalla enshrinee, engraver
Albrecht Dürer (May 21, 1471 - April 6, 1528) was a German painter and mathematician. Along with Rembrandt and Goya, Dürer is considered one of th...
Hildegard Of Bingen

Hildegard Of Bingen

female, deceased (1179)
Christian, Bingen, Herbalist, Scivias, Manuscriptilluminators, Women of medieval Germany
Selected English translations of Hildegard *Atherton, Mark, trans. "Hildegard of Bingen: Selected Writings". London: Penguin, 2001. *Baird, Joseph...
Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris

male, deceased (1259)
painter, Manuscriptilluminators, From st albans, Writer-illustrator, illuminated manuscript, watercolour
Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259) was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans...
Simon Bening

Simon Bening

male, deceased (1561)
Peter Brueghel, landscape, Labours of the Months, guild, painters' guild, Manuscriptilluminators
Simon Bening (1483 - 1561) was a 16th century miniature painter of the Ghent-Bruges school, the last major artist of the Netherlndish tradition....
Jean Fouquet

Jean Fouquet

male, deceased (1481)
Portrait miniaturists, Manuscriptilluminators, manuscript illumination, 15th century, illuminated manuscript, Miniature painter
Jean Fouquet or Jehan Fouquet (1420 - 1481) was the most important French painter of the 15th century, a master of both panel painting and...
Albrecht Altdorfer

Albrecht Altdorfer

male, deceased (1538)
Manuscriptilluminators, landscape painting, landscape, artist, German, Renaissance painter
Albrecht Altdorfer was a German painter and printmaker, the leader of the Danube School in southern Germany, and a near-contemporary of Albrecht...
Jean Pucelle

Jean Pucelle

male, deceased (1355)
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Manuscriptilluminators, School of Paris, manuscript illuminator, Illuminated manuscripts, grisaille
Jean Pucelle (c.1300-1355) was a Parisian Gothic-era manuscript illuminator, active between 1320 and 1350. His style is characterized by delicate...
Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

male, deceased (1430)
miniaturess, Khitrovo Gospels, Manuscriptilluminators, death, miniature, hegumen
Andrei Rublev (c.1360 or 1370 - 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of icons and frescoes. There is...
Herrad Of Landsberg

Herrad Of Landsberg

female, deceased (1195)
Manuscriptilluminators, from Alsace, noble, strasbourg, author, nun
Herrad of Landsberg (c.1130 - July 25 1195) was a 12th century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She is known as...

Barthélemy D'Eyck

male
burgundy, illuminated manuscript, van eyck, Manuscriptilluminators, Early Netherlandish painter, Master of the Aix Annunciation
Barthélemy d'Eyck, van Eyck or d' Eyck, ; (ca.1420-after 1470) was an Early Netherlandish artist who worked in France and probably in Burgundy as a...