The use of models in medieval book painting / edited by Monika E. Müller.

Based on papers presented at the 2012 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Includes bibliographical references.

The role of prototypes and models in the transmission of medieval picture cycles : the case of the Beatus manuscripts / Peter K. Klein -- The models of the illuminators in the early Gothic period / Laurence Terrier Aliferis -- Glass painters and manuscript illuminators / Guido Siebert -- A model community? : an investigation into the use of models in the work of William de Brailes / Cynthia Johnston -- Changing workshop policies : Passion cycles by the masters of Zweder van Culemborg / Miranda Bloem -- Tradition and innovation in the work of Jean Colombe : the usage of models in late 15th century French manuscript illumination / Christine Seidel -- Corporate design made in Ghent/Bruges? : on the extensive reuse of patterns in late medieval Flemish illuminated manuscripts / Joris Corin Heyder.

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Until recently, the phenomenon of copying in medieval book painting has been considered mainly in terms of the reconstruction of pictorial sources used for the composition or iconography of miniatures, initials, or decorative elements. Although historic sources only rarely mention the circumstances of manuscripts' production, one particular widely-accepted hypothesis has prevailed until now, according to which artists used model drawings or sketch books with the aim of facilitating the produc ...

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