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MARTYRDOM OF ST LAWRENCE, initial 'L' cut from a choirbook, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Bologna, c.1310]
178 x 185mm overall. The naked saint lies on an obliquely placed grid and, stoically, regards two torturers to the left; they prod him with long toasting forks while another executioner, kneeling beside the grill, encourages the flames with bellows; above the saint a half-length angel hovers and holds a cloth ready to receive the martyr's soul and, to the right, two onlookers are shown in the upper windows of a tower; the scene is set against a background of burnished gold and framed by the tower and the initial with staves of pink with curling foliate terminals of grey, green, blue and orange; on the verso two four-line staves with music of square notation and two lines of text (slight creasing and abrasion of the gold and deliberate, retributative erasure to the faces of the executioners and onlookers).
This is a fine, high quality illumination characteristic of the style prevalent in Bologna in the first quarter of the 14th century and closely comparable with initials in the great series of choirbooks produced for the churches of San Francesco and San Domenico.
[Bologna, c.1310]
178 x 185mm overall. The naked saint lies on an obliquely placed grid and, stoically, regards two torturers to the left; they prod him with long toasting forks while another executioner, kneeling beside the grill, encourages the flames with bellows; above the saint a half-length angel hovers and holds a cloth ready to receive the martyr's soul and, to the right, two onlookers are shown in the upper windows of a tower; the scene is set against a background of burnished gold and framed by the tower and the initial with staves of pink with curling foliate terminals of grey, green, blue and orange; on the verso two four-line staves with music of square notation and two lines of text (slight creasing and abrasion of the gold and deliberate, retributative erasure to the faces of the executioners and onlookers).
This is a fine, high quality illumination characteristic of the style prevalent in Bologna in the first quarter of the 14th century and closely comparable with initials in the great series of choirbooks produced for the churches of San Francesco and San Domenico.