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and moved away from the flat depictions common up to that time. The figures' gestures and drapery are depicted in a lifelike manner, with architecture and backgrounds well-rendered. Facial expressions are painted in a naturalistic style. The work thus demonstrates the painting style of the period
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The names are not the signatures of the artists themselves, since they are all recorded in the same handwriting. It is very rare for artistic works from the Middle Ages to record the name of the artist, since it was not the individual artist so much as the meaning of the image which was most
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at the command of, or as a gift for, the
Emperor Basil II. It was completed between 979 and the early years of the 11th century. In the course of the 14th century it came into the possession of a
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El "Menologio de
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the group. They likely worked together in a workshop connected to the
Imperial court. The other painters are Georgios, Michael the Younger, Michael of
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important. The reason for the recording of the names of the painters below their works in the
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by eight different artists. It was unusual for a menologion from that era to be so richly painted. It currently resides in the
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doctor who resided in Constantinople. In the 15th century it was acquired by
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