Footnotes:
Left page of Alexander discovering the Water of Life in the Land of Darkness, with the prophets Khidr and Ilyas - LACMA, M.73.5.590
This extremely specific pinterest board on medieval paintbrushes and workspaces
Another artist gave a go at making their own medieval brushes
Materials: Making a Medieval Manuscript, from an exhibition by Vanderblit University
Skull with lapis lazuli in their teeth is discovered to be a female scribe
"One thousand years ago, a woman in a convent in northern Germany licked
her paintbrush to draw the bristles into a fine point, and some of the
pigment sealed into the plaque on her teeth. Now, archaeologists have
discovered that the color came from lapis lazuli, a blue stone from half
a world away. The finding suggests this anonymous middle-aged woman was
likely a skilled painter tasked with creating high-quality illuminated
manuscripts of religious texts—the first time a medieval artist has been
identified from their skeleton alone, and further evidence that women
copied and painted books in medieval Europe."
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