Freise [de]) that Theophilus is the same person as the artisan monk RogerofHelmarshausen. Roger appears to have come from Stavelot Abbey in the Meuse River...
author of the best-known medieval "how-to" guide to several arts, including oil painting — thought to be a pseudonym ofRogerofHelmarshausen Theophilos...
Helmarshausen Abbey (German: Kloster Helmarshausen) was a Benedictine monastery situated in the small town ofHelmarshausen, now part of Bad Karlshafen...
Jan van Eyck in particular, with the invention of oil paints. However, Theophilus (RogerofHelmarshausen?) clearly gives instructions for oil-based painting...
Theophilus Presbyter, a Benedictine monk believed by some scholars to be RogerofHelmarshausen, a goldsmith who was also a metal glass and pigment worker through...
painting wood statues and other objects is much older and Theophilus (RogerofHelmarshausen?) clearly gives instructions in his 1125 treatise, On Divers Arts...
propagated a myth that van Eyck invented oil painting, but Theophilus (RogerofHelmarshausen?) clearly gives instructions in his 1125 treatise, On Divers Arts...
won a dispute with the Ekkehardinger over the rights to Helmarshausen Abbey. A gathering of nobles under the king declared in his favour, though the...