cizique

Updated: August 15, 2026

This theory is quite plausible, as cloisonné was made by the Byzantine goldsmiths. M. Lecoy de la Marche tells us that the first recorded name of an illuminator is that of a woman Lala de Cizique, a Greek, who painted on ivory and on parchment in Rome during the first Christian century.

Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison - Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages: A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance