The makers

Artists

Lives shaped by scriptoria, workshops, patrons, pilgrimages and the stubborn intelligence of materials. Begin with a focused launch index designed to grow from verified museum data.

21 makers

11471–1528

Late Gothic

Albrecht Dürer

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

21427–1479

Late Gothic

Antonio Rossellino

Italian artist (1427-1479).

31435–1494

Late Gothic

Hans Memling

German/Flemish painter (c. 1430–1494).

41250–1260

Gothic

William de Brailes

English manuscript illuminator.

51450–1504

Late Gothic

Mariano del Buono

Italian illuminator, 1433-ca. 1504 (1433–1504).

6Dates not yet verified

Late Gothic

Master of Jacques de Luxembourg

French painter.

71375–1444

Late Gothic

Robert Campin

Dutch painter, first great master of Flemish and Early Netherlandish painting, 1375–1444 (1375–1444).

8born 1500

Late Gothic

Pseudo Ortkens

Flemish artist (active 1510-1540).

9died 1478

Late Gothic

Laurent Girardin

Died 1478, in Lyons. French, Painter, glassmaker.

101339–1399

Gothic

Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci

Italian painter (1339-1399).

111450–1546

Late Gothic

Noel Bellemare

Painter and manuscript illuminator.

12born 1450

Late Gothic

Maître François

French manuscript illuminator.

131400–1400

Gothic

Master of the Codex of Saint George

Italian manuscript illuminator.

141450–1470

Late Gothic

Belbello da Pavia

Italian painter and illuminator.

15born 1450

Late Gothic

Coëtivy Master

French artist, illuminator and painter, active (1450-1500).

16active Paris, 1319–34

Opening of the Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux with facing grisaille miniatures

Gothic

Jean Pucelle

A Parisian illuminator whose grisaille miniatures and inventive margins set the standard for French court books in the early fourteenth century.

17active France, by 1399–1416

Folio from the Belles Heures with Saint Jerome in a woman’s dress

International Gothic

The Limbourg Brothers

Three brothers from Nijmegen whose books for Jean de Berry brought a new attention to landscape, weather and daily life into the illuminated page.

18active by 1278–died 1318

Duccio’s small Madonna and Child with a painted parapet

Gothic

Duccio di Buoninsegna

The founder of the Sienese school, who joined Byzantine gold-ground tradition to a new tenderness of gesture and expression.

191266/76–1337

Giotto’s Adoration of the Magi on a gold ground

Gothic

Giotto di Bondone

A Florentine painter whose solid figures and legible spaces changed how narrative could be told on a wall or a panel.

20active by 1315–died 1344

Gothic

Simone Martini

A Sienese painter of refined line and courtly elegance who carried Italian painting to the papal court at Avignon.

21c. 1460–1531

Riemenschneider’s alabaster Saint Jerome drawing a thorn from the lion’s paw

Late Gothic

Tilman Riemenschneider

A Würzburg sculptor whose unpainted limewood altarpieces and finely worked stone figures mark the last phase of Gothic carving in Germany.