The Bible is to the order what the sun is to the material universe-its Illuminator and vivifier, even as it also is the, guide to faith and practice.
"The Jericho Road"
W. Bion Adkins
This work is noteworthy, not only because the little figures in it are so carefully finished that they resemble the work of an Illuminator, but because it is a wonderful thing that a picture on canvas should have lasted three hundred years.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari
As I do not wish to omit a memorable circumstance concerning art, I will notice here that there happened to be in Rome at this time a great friend of Giotto named Oderigi d'Aggobbio, an excellent Illuminator of the day, who adorned many books for the Pope for the palace library, though they are now mostly destroyed by time.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari