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Indian painting has a very long tradition and history ... rock shelters are approximately 10,000 years ... Manuscript painting of Assam continued to flourish ...
18th-century Arabic manuscripts. In Anglo-Saxon England, manuscript culture seems to have begun around the 10th century. [2] This is not to say however, that manuscripts and the recording of information was not important prior to the 10th century, but that during the 10th century, historians see an influx and heavier weight placed on these manuscripts.
Byzantine art, once its style was established by the 6th century, placed great emphasis on retaining traditional iconography and style, and gradually evolved during the thousand years of the Byzantine Empire and the living traditions of Greek and Russian Orthodox icon-painting. Byzantine painting has a hieratic feeling and icons were and still ...
Vaishnava saints were primarily responsible for the establishment of manuscript painting tradition in Assam. A large number of manuscript paintings were done and copied during the 16th to 19th centuries. Assam has a very long history of visual art from the pre-historic age up to the end of Ahom rule in 1826 A.D.
Govardhan, Emperor Jahangir visiting the ascetic Jadrup, c. 1616–1620 [1]. Mughal painting is a South Asian style of painting on paper made in to miniatures either as book illustrations or as single works to be kept in albums (), originating from the territory of the Mughal Empire in the Indian subcontinent.
The Isha Upanishad manuscript Gharib al-Hadith, by Abu 'Ubaid al-Qasim ibn Sallam al-Harawi (d. 837 AD). The oldest known dated Arabic manuscript on paper in Leiden University Library, dated 319 AH (931 AD) A 14th-century Armenian manuscript, with painting by Sargis Pitsak. The first page of the Gospel of Mark. Cod. 2627, fol. 436 r. (Matenadaran)
Alexander Bening, Adoration of the Magi, before 1483, British Library. The Ghent–Bruges school is a distinctive style of manuscript illumination which was prevalent in the Southern Netherlands (mainly present-day Belgium) from about 1475 to about 1550, [1] by which point the long tradition of manuscript miniature painting was virtually extinct, displaced by the printed book.
The illustrations were created to enhance the passages of the Gospel and bring the word of God to the viewer. The four Gospels, John, Mathew, Luke and Mark take the reader through the year from Easter to Easter. [18] This manuscript also made use of models depicting similar figures with minor alterations or color variations.