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Last Name Bening

Given Name Alexander

alt. Names A. B. ; Beninc / Sanders Bening ;

Marriage

Children miniature painter -> Simon Bening (= Bennik)

Year born 1444 or 1445

Year died 1519

Place of death Bruges ?

Father's occupation

Relatives

Education taught by his father

Country of Activity Belgium

Worked for Book of hours of Joanna of Castile (c. 1500) (published 2005) ;

Patronage

Collaborators

Techniques zoological and topographical miniature painting ;

Sample(s) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Breviarium_Grimani_-_August.jpg/220px-Breviarium_Grimani_-_August.jpg ;

Archival sources

Published sources Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Giulio Bologna: Handschriften und Miniaturen. Das Buch vor Gutenberg (Munich 2000: 134-6) ;

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