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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.
Illuminated manuscript examples from the Museum of the Book, The Hague Archived 2015-09-04 at the Wayback Machine; Photos of Zodiac and Monthly Labour Imagery in the churches of Britain, France and Italy; The Medieval Year: Zodiac Signs and the Labors of the Months; A comprehensive collection of images at „flickr“
The traditional organization of book production fell apart; they were made up of libraries doling out quires to scribes and illuminators, who lived in proximity. The new, specialized system based on patronage did not support them. Libraries, and not scribes, turned into printers, and served as a link between late manuscript culture and print ...
The Spinola Hours is a illuminated manuscript book of hours of about 1510-1520, consisting of 312 folios, over 80 of which are mainly decorated with miniature paintings. It was produced between Bruges and Ghent in Flanders around 1510-1520, and is a key work of the Ghent–Bruges school of illuminators.
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.
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Simon Bening (c. 1483 – 1561) was a Flemish miniaturist, generally regarded as the last major artist of the Netherlandish tradition. [ 2 ] Bening, born either in Ghent or Antwerp , was probably trained by his father, illuminator Alexander Bening , in the family workshop in Ghent.
By 1500 the printed book of hours had largely replaced manuscript ones, except for luxury books like this, which were restricted to the higher nobility and royalty. The manuscript belonged to the princely Wittelsbach family in the 16th century, and then to the library of the counts palatine in Heidelberg , leaving that collection before 1623.