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@michaelmicasso
It's tricky to know who's the iconographer (artist) behind these icons—as it's commonly only addressing the monastery/place who commissioned them. Is it a common practice/norm, or is there some context that I perhaps miss here?
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@vortac
I believe the „artists“ where often monks of the same monastery. While they surely had a personal style (and most likely different abilities), I don’t think the idea of the artist as an individual was already present.
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@sinusoidalsnail
Yeah, and assuming this is from a manuscript (I think it is?) I believe it also depends on the time period. I'm totally going off vague memories from a class I took a long time ago, so I could be wrong, but: I think that by the later years (1500s or so) there was a privatized secular industry for illuminated manuscripts (both religious and non-religious). And as they became commercialized, there were more works attributed to specific scribes and illuminators
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@sinusoidalsnail
Oooh nevermind, I totally did not read thoroughly, "icon," sorry 🤦🏻♀️
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@vortac
Would make sense time-wise as it might have gone hand in hand with the development of the printing press and an extended availability of books, beyond the clerical class. And also with urbanization.
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