Illuminator Biographies

Medieval era

Albrecht Durer

May 21, 1471 – April 6, 1528

German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist (1471-1528)

Medieval era

Jan van Eyck

1390 – July 9, 1441

Flemish painter (c.1390–1441)

Medieval era

Andrei Rublev

c. 1360 – October 17, 1428

Medieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)

Medieval era

Dunstan

909 CE – May 19, 988 CE

Archbishop of Canterbury and saint

Medieval era

Abraham Cresques

July 11, 1325 – 1387

Cartographer from Palma, Majorca

Medieval era

Simone Martini

1284 – August 1, 1344

Italian painter

Medieval era

Andrea Mantegna

1431 – September 13, 1506

Italian Renaissance painter (1431-1506)

Medieval era

Giovanni Bellini

1430 – November 29, 1516

15th- and 16th-century Italian Renaissance painter (1430–1516)

Medieval era

Rogier van der Weyden

c. 1390 – June 18, 1464

Early Netherlandish painter (c. 1399–1464)

Medieval era

Pisanello

1395 – 1455

Italian artist (1395–1455)

Boucicaut

d. 1425

French manuscript illuminator

Medieval era

Fra Angelico

1400 – February 18, 1455

Italian Early Renaissance painter