ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, historiated initial 'I' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT GRADUAL ON VELLUM
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, historiated initial 'I' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT GRADUAL ON VELLUM [Siena, c.1345] 542 x 364mm (leaf); 164 x 46mm (initial). Seven lines of music and text, rubrics in red, verso with one blue initial with red penwork (some fading of text on verso). Double-sided frame. Contemporary folio number 'lxxxi'. The initial opens the Introit for the feast of St Anthony of Padua (June 13), 'In medio ecclesie aperuit os eius'. The miniature, with its sugared-almond palette and solemn, sideways-looking, grey-clad St Anthony, is the work of Lippo Vanni, a Sienese illuminator influenced by Pietro Lorenzetti and closely linked to the Master of Sant'Eugenio, whose activity decorating series of choirbooks for churches in and around Siena can be documented from 1340 to 1375. The present leaf is one of a group of cuttings from a choirbook dispersed among several European and American collections, including four leaves in the Rijksmuseum and three in the Philadelphia Free Library (see Leaves of Gold, Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections , ed. J.R. Tanis, 2001, pp.170-72).
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, historiated initial 'I' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT GRADUAL ON VELLUM
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, historiated initial 'I' on a leaf from an ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT GRADUAL ON VELLUM [Siena, c.1345] 542 x 364mm (leaf); 164 x 46mm (initial). Seven lines of music and text, rubrics in red, verso with one blue initial with red penwork (some fading of text on verso). Double-sided frame. Contemporary folio number 'lxxxi'. The initial opens the Introit for the feast of St Anthony of Padua (June 13), 'In medio ecclesie aperuit os eius'. The miniature, with its sugared-almond palette and solemn, sideways-looking, grey-clad St Anthony, is the work of Lippo Vanni, a Sienese illuminator influenced by Pietro Lorenzetti and closely linked to the Master of Sant'Eugenio, whose activity decorating series of choirbooks for churches in and around Siena can be documented from 1340 to 1375. The present leaf is one of a group of cuttings from a choirbook dispersed among several European and American collections, including four leaves in the Rijksmuseum and three in the Philadelphia Free Library (see Leaves of Gold, Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections , ed. J.R. Tanis, 2001, pp.170-72).
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