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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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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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Aelsin  

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, 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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French, 11th century, male.

Active in Le Puy-en-Velay (Haute-Loire).

Sculptor.

Aldebertus was the son of Gunsmarus de Maximiaco and Marie. He was Prior of St-Romain-le-Puy (Loire) in 1017, and a pupil of the masters who built the abbey church of St-Martin d'Ainay in Lyons. He is supposed to have built the church of St-Romain-le-Puy....

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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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Andreas  

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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Anno  

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.

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Anno  

German, 10th century, male.

Active in Reichenau.

Miniaturist.

This artist is thought to be responsible for the Gerho Codex, a manuscript in the Grand Ducal Library, Darmstadt.

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Aribo  

German, 10th century, male.

Miniaturist.

A monk in Regensburg and a miniaturist, this artist is known to have collaborated with Adalbert in the restoration of the Codex Aureus of St-Emmeram.

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Greek, 11th century, male.

Active in Italy.

Miniaturist.

This artist was a monk, and signed a Greek manuscript decorated with miniatures that is preserved in the abbey of Monte Cassino.

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German, 11th century, male.

Active in Metz.

Miniaturist.

A monk from St Arnoul.

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Bernard  

French, 11th century, male.

Painter. Religious subjects.

A monk, this artist was active in Beaulieu, Limousin. Between 1005 and 1008 he painted in the oratory of the monastery: The Annunciation; The Visitation; The Birth of Jesus; The Presentation in the Temple and The Adoration of the Magi...

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Bernard  

Flemish School, 11th century, male.

Painter. Religious subjects.

This artist painted pictures for the abbey church of Lobbes.

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Bertolt  

German, 11th century, male.

Active in Salzburg.

Miniaturist.

Although this artist worked in Salzburg, his work has the Byzantine traits of the Regensburg School.

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11th century, male.

Miniaturists. Religious subjects.

These artists worked in Byzantium around 1000 and were two of the eight artists responsible for the famous Martyrology written for Emperor Basil II (979-1025). This life of the saints of the Greek Church has 430 miniatures and is preserved in the Vatican Library....

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Bonizzo  

Italian, 11th century, male.

Active in Rome at the beginning of the 11th century.

Painter. Religious subjects.

School of Rome.

An inscription indicates that this artist painted the frescoes in the church of S Urbano alla Caffarella, near Rome (1011).