ACANTHUS INITIAL ‘U’ with a Mask and Renaissance Urn, illuminated initial cut from a choirbook [Verona, c.1500]

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The following two lots are arresting and highly decorative initials displaying the characteristic motifs and treatment of the Veronese artists, father and son Francesco (1450-1503/6) and Girolamo dai Libri (1474-1555), the most famous members of an illustrious family of illuminators whose name is derived from their specialism in manuscript painting.Both Francesco and Girolamo are known to have worked individually on manuscript commissions for churches in and around Verona; at the end of the 16th century, Girolamo was beginning to emerge from the shadow of his father, with whom he had been working collaboratively during his training, and to embark upon his long and productive career, during which he also produced altarpieces and panel paintings. It would be for his work on manuscripts, a series of choirbooks, that he would be recognised by Vasari in the Lives, in which Girolamo was praised for the exquisite detail of his work. The pairing of a blue mask on the left-hand stave facing a decorative orb on the right in the first of the two lots is a characteristic motif seen in the work of both Franceso and Girolamo dai Libri – a similar design appears in the initials painted in the series of dai Libri choirbooks associated with Santa Maria in Organo, Verona (such as Verona, Museo di Castelvecchio, inv. 1326) and later initials by Girolamo, many of these held by important collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (62.122.17) and the Cleveland Museum of Art (1924.1016) – while the fruit-filled blue urn on a wreath-hung plinth in the initial offers a delightful central focus.

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ACANTHUS INITIAL ‘U’ with a Mask and Renaissance Urn, illuminated initial cut from a choirbook [Verona, c.1500]

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