Notices to the share of  individual illuminators in the decoration of the Antiphonary of Sedlec Cover Image

Poznámky k podílu jednotlivých iluminátorů na výzdobě Antifonáře sedleckého
Notices to the share of individual illuminators in the decoration of the Antiphonary of Sedlec

Author(s): Jana Šubrtová
Subject(s): Visual Arts, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Masarykův ústav
Keywords: Illumination; Antiphonary of Sedlec

Summary/Abstract: By a detailed analysis of decoration and collation of this manuscript it was found out that three principal masters participated in its decoration. The top quality of the decoration can be found in the work of the first master continuing the Byzantine, Venetian, and Saxon-Thuringian creation. The second master uses the first master´s work. The work of the third master is quite different as it is connected with original Bohemian production – with the Mater verborum manuscript. This different quality of illuminations allows to suppose that the codex originated in a scriptorium acting somewhere in Bohemia and employing a number of artists and their helpmates.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 3-18
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech
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