Seven-day champion
One of the illuminators who painted the Wenceslas Bible around 1400 is called the seven-day master .
The artist, also sometimes referred to as the Genesis Master , not known by name, got his emergency name after the initial he created for the Book of Genesis , which begins the description of the creation of the world in seven days. It is the gold "I" -Initiale of In the beginning God created .. . In total, the Seven Day Master probably completed 19 pages of the Bible.
The seven-day master was probably a south- east German illuminator; he shows an influence of a regional Bohemian style of the time. Like all artists working in the so-called Wenceslas workshop , he followed the instructions, some of which can still be found on the pages, as to which and how a scene is to be designed graphically. This indicates his work under a workshop management who coordinated the complete edition of the Wenceslas Bible. Even if the seven-day master created only a few pictures of the Bible, these, like those of the other painters of the Bible, are rich in the symbols they share and follow contemporary iconography. In the case of the seven-day master, however, this is definitely characterized by his own interpretation of the scenes in the given context and the figures he creates can often be recognized by the gestures of the hand that are typical for the master.
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Schmid: Painting until 1450 . In: KM Swoboda (Ed.): Gotik in Böhmen . Munich 1969, pp. 167-321