French, 7th century, male.
Active in Limoges from 600 to 630.
Sculptor.
This artist is thought to be the Master of St Eloysius.
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Arabic School, 10th century, male.
Died 997.
Painter.
None of the works of this artist are known.
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German, 10th century, male.
Illuminator.
This Tegernsee monk is mentioned as the writer of a psalter made for an aristocratic lady called Heilwich. The work has not been preserved, but the dedicatory verses by Froumund von Tegernsee are still in Munich. A miniature in a collection of the national library, Munich, is attributed to an Adalpertus and dates from the 11th century, but it is not improbable that it is by this monk....
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German, 6th – 7th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the Middle Ages.
Sculptor.
On the wall of the chapel of St Anne, in Worms Cathedral, there is an old stone relief of Daniel in the LionsDen by this artist.
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British, 10th – 11th century, male.
Miniaturist.
This artist's signature is found on manuscripts preserved in Oxford and the British Museum.
London (British Mus.): manuscript
Oxford: manuscript
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British, 10th century, male.
Miniaturist.
This artist is known to have worked on the miniatures of a manuscript (British Museum).
London (British Mus.): miniature
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British, 8th century, male.
Active from 724 to 740.
Miniaturist.
Anglo-Irish School.
Aethelwold was Bishop of Lindisfarne and is thought to be the painter of the miniatures in the oldest British bible The Durham Book, preserved in the British Museum.
London (British Mus.): The Durham Book...
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British, 10th century, male.
Miniaturist.
Aethelwold was Bishop of Winchester from 963 to 984. Like many princes of the Church, he was also an active artist. Winchester was one of the most important art centres in England. The Consecration of Aethelwold, in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire, and a 10th century masterpiece among the miniatures from the monastery of Newminster in Winchester, is the work of the monk Godemann....
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British, 10th – 11th century, male.
Miniaturist.
This artist is worthy of mention because of the stylistic characteristics of his work. He was a monk at Westminster Abbey and one of the most important English miniaturists of the 10th and 11th centuries.
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10th century, male.
Painter.
This artist is thought to have lived at the court of Constantine Porphyrogenetus.
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Japanese, 9th – 10th century, male.
Active in Kyoto 9th-10th century.
Painter. Religious subjects.
Aimi was the son and pupil of Kose no Kanaoka, the founder of the Kose school, and a member of the imperial bureau of painting. Like his father he painted mainly Buddhist subjects as well as imaginary scenes....
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Egyptian, 10th century, male.
Painter. Historical subjects, landscapes.
Al-Kutami was a member of the Kutama tribe and was brought up by Banu-el-Muallim, who painted the mosque situated high up in the Karafa mountains, near Cairo in 976 AD. He painted a work entitled Joseph at the Fountain...
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Italian, 9th century, male.
Miniaturist.
There is a richly decorated and illuminated Bible attributed to this artist in the archives of the cathedral in Monza.
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9th century, male.
Miniaturist.
Identified in the dedication to the Vivian Bible (now preserved in Paris) as a co-illustrator along with Sigvaldus and Aregarius.
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German, 10th century, male.
Died 958.
Painter.
Westphalian school.
Originally from Westphalia, this artist was a monk in the abbey of Corvey.
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10th century, male.
Painter.
This artist worked in Byzantium and is said to have been the most famous painter of the time of Constantine Porphyrogenetus.
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Italian, 9th – 10th century, male.
Active during the 9th or 10th century.
Illuminator.
There is a manuscript by this artist, the Epistola Fulberti, in the Biblothèque Nationale, Paris.
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French, 10th century, male.
Miniaturist.
This artist is known by the inscription on a miniature in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. This miniature is very curious and seems to be in a rather southern style.
