illuminator

A book painter is an artist who illustrates manuscripts and books with pictures, ornaments and initials. Together with gilders and other people who are involved in the creation of a book, they are also called illuminators. From the Late Antiquity to the Renaissance, bookmaking was one of the most important artistic genres, but lost much importance with the spread of book printing and printing graphics in the 15th century

Illumination or illumination is the entirety of the ornamental elements used in bookmaking, which, in addition to the text-related illustrations, includes all the distinctions of the text as well as the design of the page margins. It is true that the term painting is customary for mediaeval book illustrations, but these are usually colored drawings, in the course of which the draftsman (adumbrator) and the painter have produced the illustrations one after the other. The different work steps were either in the hands of an artist or were organized in a workshop.

Until the 13th century most of the book painters remained anonymous, but the names of some of these early artists are handed down. In particular, such artists have been known in great numbers only since the 13th century. In the fifteenth century, famous artists were directors of large workshops. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Standard data (functional concept): GND: 4146822-3 (AKS)

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