SUMMER ENIGMA MEDIEVAL MYSTERIES: Crafts and Guilds on Stamps

MURAL PAINTING The images on the walls, as well as what appears to be a model seated to the left, identify this room as a painter's studio. Besides providing decorative work for buildings, medieval painters were either muralists, who specialized in wall paintings and screens, or miniaturists who provided illustrations for texts. The latter art form was, by and large, performed by monastic artists. The muralist, on the other hand, was a craftsman, such as the artist shown here explaining his work to clients. The long table to the left was most likely used for laying out the cartoons, or preparatory designs, for the paintings. View large JPEGBack Next

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