A self-taught peasant who in 1849 had joined the monastic community of the Cheia Monastery in the Valcea County, Picu Patrut was a hymnologist, a monastic scribe (he wrote copies of important works of his time) and Europe's last great miniaturist.
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Creator: Picu Pătruț
Creator Nationality: Romanian
Date: 1842
Location: Romania, Sibiu, Săliște
Provenance: National Museum of the Romanian Peasant