Wenceslas workshop

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Miniature from the Wenceslas Bible, around 1400

With Wenzel workshop called art historians the name usually not or unsure known seven or more illuminators that from 1390 to 1400 for King Wenceslas IV . of Bohemia wrote and painted the Wenceslas Bible and other books.

The masters of the Wenceslas workshop will, according to the parts they illustrate, e.g. B. Balaam-Meister or Ruth-Meister , one also suspects that a large part of the work comes from a painter named Frana (Franz / Frantisek).

Common names ( emergency names ) for the masters of the Wenceslas workshop are:

The master of the Golden Bull is said to have worked in the Wenceslas workshop .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Schmidt: Painting until 1450 . In: Karl M. Swoboda (Ed.): Gotik in Böhmen . Prestel, Munich 1969, pp. 167-321.
    Other naming z. B. at J. Krasa: The manuscripts of King Wenceslas IV . Vienna 1971.
    Cf. also z. BM Thomas, G. Schmidt, M. Krieger: The Bible of King Wenceslas . Graz 1989.

literature

  • Josef Krasa: The manuscripts of King Wenceslas IV. Forum-Verlag, Prague 1971.