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Assumption of the Virgin, historiated initial 'G' on a leaf from an illuminated Gradual on vellum [Italy, Perugia, c.1280-90].
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Maestro del Messale A 47 di Perugia
Assumption of the Virgin, historiated initial 'G' on a leaf from an illuminated Gradual on vellum [Italy, Perugia, c.1280-90].
A handsome leaf showing the influence of Cimabue by an anonymous Umbrian Master active in central Italy in the final decades of the 13th century.
457 x 335mm. The initial 'G' opening the introit for the Mass of the Assumption of the Virgin, 'Gaudeamus omnes', 7 lines of text and music on a four-line red stave, contemporary foliation 'CCLVIII', reverse with three initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing of the opposite colour (some marginal staining and creasing, a few losses to the burnished gold, else in good condition). Mounted and framed.
Provenance:
Cambi Casa d'Aste, Milan, 18 November 2014, lot 281.
Illumination:
The initial has been attributed by Gaudenz Freuler to the Maestro del Messale A 47 di Perugia, an important figure in Umbrian illumination whose activity Filippo Todini suggests spanned Umbria and Tuscany in the final quarter of the 13th century (see F. Todini, La Pittura Umbra dal duecento al primo cinquecento, 1989, I, p.157; also E. Neri Lusanna, 'Il miniatore del messale di Deruta e i corali del San Pietro a Gubbio', Francesco d'Assisi, 1982, pp.178-288, 260-273). Named after the eponymous codex at the Biblioteca Comunale Augusta in Perugia, produced for the Church of San Francesco a Monteripido, his is an archaising style influenced by a keen awareness of Cimabue and Bolognese illumination of the period. Stylistically, he is closely related to his more famous contemporary the Master of the Deruta Missal, named after the Missal in the Pinacoteca Comunale in Deruta. On his work for the Franciscan order see A. Labriola, 'La miniatura nei libri francescani: devozione e ideologia', L'arte di Francesco. Capolavori d'arte italiana e terre d'Asia dal XIII al XV secolo, exh. cat. 2015, pp.134-135.
Assumption of the Virgin, historiated initial 'G' on a leaf from an illuminated Gradual on vellum [Italy, Perugia, c.1280-90].
A handsome leaf showing the influence of Cimabue by an anonymous Umbrian Master active in central Italy in the final decades of the 13th century.
457 x 335mm. The initial 'G' opening the introit for the Mass of the Assumption of the Virgin, 'Gaudeamus omnes', 7 lines of text and music on a four-line red stave, contemporary foliation 'CCLVIII', reverse with three initials in red or blue with penwork flourishing of the opposite colour (some marginal staining and creasing, a few losses to the burnished gold, else in good condition). Mounted and framed.
Provenance:
Cambi Casa d'Aste, Milan, 18 November 2014, lot 281.
Illumination:
The initial has been attributed by Gaudenz Freuler to the Maestro del Messale A 47 di Perugia, an important figure in Umbrian illumination whose activity Filippo Todini suggests spanned Umbria and Tuscany in the final quarter of the 13th century (see F. Todini, La Pittura Umbra dal duecento al primo cinquecento, 1989, I, p.157; also E. Neri Lusanna, 'Il miniatore del messale di Deruta e i corali del San Pietro a Gubbio', Francesco d'Assisi, 1982, pp.178-288, 260-273). Named after the eponymous codex at the Biblioteca Comunale Augusta in Perugia, produced for the Church of San Francesco a Monteripido, his is an archaising style influenced by a keen awareness of Cimabue and Bolognese illumination of the period. Stylistically, he is closely related to his more famous contemporary the Master of the Deruta Missal, named after the Missal in the Pinacoteca Comunale in Deruta. On his work for the Franciscan order see A. Labriola, 'La miniatura nei libri francescani: devozione e ideologia', L'arte di Francesco. Capolavori d'arte italiana e terre d'Asia dal XIII al XV secolo, exh. cat. 2015, pp.134-135.
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