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Italian Antiphonary
1450 Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest This miniature, representing the Capture of Christ, is from the Italian Antiphonary, illuminated by the Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo with scenes of the Passion and miniatures representing the legend of Saint Francis of Assisi. , MINIATURIST, Italian , Italian Antiphonary , 1401-1450 , Italian , illumination , religious
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Gradual
1480-84 Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest The miniature representing The Last Judgment comes from a Gradual of French provenance which belonged to King Matthias Corvinus' (1458-1490) Bibliotheca Corviniana in Buda. , MINIATURIST, French , Gradual , 1451-1500 , French , illumination , religious
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Italian Antiphonary
1450 Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest This miniature, representing Saint Francis before the Sultan, is from the Italian Antiphonary, illuminated by the Sienese painter Giovanni di Paolo with scenes of the Passion and miniatures representing the legend of Saint Francis of Assisi. , MINIATURIST, Italian , Italian Antiphonary , 1401-1450 , Italian , illumination , religious
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Life of King St Edward
13th century Illumination on parchment University Library, Cambridge The miniature depicts the battle of Hastings in 1066 when William the Conqueror defeated Harold II. The picture provides a good illustration of the arms in the 13th century. , MINIATURIST, English , Life of King St Edward , 1201-1250 , English , illumination , historical
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Ormesby Psalter
14th century Illumination on parchment Bodleian Library, Oxford On this crowded page the high quality, irregular frame is remarkable. A larger D and a smaller T initial are related to the text: in the D initial the three temptations of Christ in the desert are depicted. Both the figurative initials and the decoration were made in the same workshop (probably in Bury St Edmunds) by two different miniaturists. The codex received its name from Robert Ormesby, a monk who dedicated the codex to the prior of a convent in Norwich. , MINIATURIST, English , Ormesby Psalter , 1301-1350 , English , illumination , religious
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La Somme le Roy
1290 Illumination on parchment, 23,5 x 12,7 cm British Museum, London The picture shows a page from La Somme le Roy, representing Humility, Ahaziah typifying Pride, the Sinner and the Hypocrite. It was executed by the workshop of Master Honor? It is known that Louis IX built up a library of manuscripts and himself commissioned a number of works. The names of his illuminators are not known. However, the name of one of his grandson's artists was Master Honor?and he worked for the court of Philip the Fair (1285-1314). Little is known about his career. He lived in Paris on the south bank; a small group of manuscripts can be attributed to him. From them it is clear that by his time the style of Louis IX's painters had been significantly altered. Master Honor?s illumination is still extremely graceful and elegant, but architectural motifs play a far smaller part in the decoration. Faces and hands are extremely pallid and almost completely without colour, even more emphasis being laid on the drawing. By contrast, the drapery is fuller and the folds heavier. This is accomplished by a development in the modelling technique, for there is far more suggestion of light and shadow. This development may represent the first impingement of Italian Gothic painting on the north. Artist: MINIATURIST, French , La Somme le Roy , 1251-1300 , French , illumination , religious
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Book of Hours
1490s Illumination on parchment Cathedral Library, Esztergom The miniature depicting The Death and the Knight comes from a Book of Hours, a French (Tours) Book of Prayers. Artist: MINIATURIST, French , Book of Hours , 1451-1500 , French , illumination , religious
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Festetich Codex
1493 Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest This page comes from a Prayers Book owned by a Hungarian noblewoman, Benigna Magyar, wife of P?l Kinizsi, general of King Matthias' army. The codex later was owned by the Festetich family whence its name is derived. The initial M is decorated by plants in a very naturalistic way. Other pages of the manuscript contain similar decoration. Artist: MINIATURIST, Hungarian , Festetich Codex , 1451-1500 , Hungarian , illumination , religious
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Fragment of a Gradual
14th century Illumination on parchment Biblioteka Jagiellonska, Cracow The initial B depicts the battle of Michael with the dragon. The miniaturist follows the tradition of the Sienese Trecento (Simone Martini). The liturgical manuscripts from the 14th century (Graduals, Antiphones etc.) belong to the greatest treasures of the Cathedral of Siena. The page presented here is a fragment of a dispersed Gradual. Artist: MINIATURIST, Italian , Fragment of a Gradual , 1351-1400 , Italian , illumination , religious
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Codex Heroica
1480s Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest The miniature represents the Portrait of an Old Humanist. It is from the Codex Heroica by Phoilostratus illuminated by the Florentine painter Attavante degli Attavanti. Artist: MINIATURIST, Italian , Codex Heroica , 1451-1500 , Italian , illumination , historical
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Book of Hours
1490s Illumination on parchment Cathedral Library, Esztergom The miniature showing the Presentation comes from a Book of Hours (Flemish Book of Prayers). Artist: MINIATURIST, Flemish , Book of Hours , 1451-1500 , Flemish , illumination , religious
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Peszach Haggada
14th century Illumination on parchment, 18,5 x 22 cm Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest The Haggada is one of the richly decorated Hebrew manuscripts of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The picture shows its only page with figural initial illustrating the Exodus (Second Book of Moses). The miniature represents a group of wandering Jews headed by Moses. They wear Oriental robes and characteristic hats. Artist: MINIATURIST, Spanish , Peszach Haggada , 1301-1350 , Spanish , illumination , religious
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Amesbury Psalter
1240-50 Illumination on parchment, 30,3 x 21,6 cm All Souls College, Oxford This is a page from the Amesbury Psalter depicting the Virgin and Child with Donor. The graceful looping folds into which the drapery is caught was very popular in England. This psalter represents well the English illumination around 1250. Artist: MINIATURIST, English , Amesbury Psalter , 1201-1250 , English , illumination , religious
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Book of Hours
Illumination on parchment Stadtbibliothek, Nuremberg This page representing the Death of the Virgin is from the Book of Hours. This manuscript has a text-page layout which came to be almost universally adopted for Books of Hours during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Nuremberg manuscript is puzzling since its contents show that it was designed for use in England or by someone with English connections. However, it is certainly a Parisian production. The page illustrated shows the opening of the Hours of the Virgin. The upper part of the page is occupied by an illustration, still at this stage connected to the initial letters of the text. From this illustration springs foliage decoration which branches down and round to enclose the text beneath. This scheme is satisfactory since the foliage sprays bind text and picture together to form a pleasing surface pattern, and it is not surprising that it was widely adopted. Artist: MINIATURIST, French , Book of Hours , 1251-1300 , French , illumination , religious
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Book of Hours
1490s Illumination on parchment Cathedral Library, Esztergom The miniature representing The Legend of the Golden Gate comes from a Book of Hours, a French (Tours) Book of Prayers. Artist: MINIATURIST, French , Book of Hours , 1451-1500 , French , illumination , religious
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Livius Codex around
1450 Illumination on parchment Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich The codex contains the work of the Roman historian Livius, the illuminations on the title page refer to events mentioned in the book. The first initial F depicts the marriage of Aeneas with Lavinia, daughter of King Latinus. At the bottom left of the page Rhea Sylvia and Mars, at the right Romulus and Remus with the wolf can be seen. The master of these miniatures is unknown, but his style is close to that of the Florentine Filippo di Matteo Torelli. Artist: MINIATURIST, Italian , Livius Codex , 1401-1450 , Italian , illumination , historical
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The Visconti Book of Hours after
1430 Vellum, 25 x 17,9 cm Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence Giovannino de'Grassi began illuminating this two-volume prayer-book for Gian Galeazzo Visconti; but it was a long time after they both were dead that the work was completed by Luchino Belbello da Pavia and his assistants. The initial of the text, the capital C, is the nucleus of the folio with rather crowded embellishments. Encircled by the letter we can see the creation of Eve, in front of a golden background. The three figures - God the Father, Eve and Adam - are arranged in a way that follows the line of the C. Stylized golden vine-leaves, springing from a straight vine-stock on the right-hand side of the margin, surround the initial, and the seemingly irregular, curving network of vine-tendrils is also adjusted to the shape of the letter. In the arid, rocky landscape at the bottom of the folio there are some luxuriant, thriving bushes and shrubs, with different animals among them, which point back to the previous days of the Creation, when the Earth was populated by plants and animals. The bottom strip with its flat representations - connected with the principal one, as was usual at that time - expands in Belbello's miniature, as it did in the works of his contemporaries, into a spacious stage. In the two upper corners of the initial, groups of radially arranged angels support the Viscontis' unpleasant coat of arms which depicts the serpent devouring a child. We are presented with a fantastic mixture of fairytale and reality, of decoration and representation. The griffin is depicted in a three-dimensional manner as is the hunting leopard, the favourite "domestic animal" of the Viscontis, an animal the painter may have seen every day in his master's park. However, at that time it did not depend only on the presence of the model whether the artist succeeded in representing it successfully. This is shown by the fact that, although there were elephants, bears, lions, monkeys and rabbits too in the Viscontis' menagerie, in Belbello's miniature they appear schematically, in a childishly simplified form. This may be due to the fact that the painter had not had much practice in depicting them and had not mastered the skill of representing them. From among the innumerable instances of the intertwining of natural and fantastic forms it is worth while pointing to the oval, colourful flower cups swaying among the golden vine-leaves. These flowers have nothing to do with reality, and, in particular, not among vine-leaves. On the other hand, they have striking similarities to ornaments on the jewellery of the period, not only because they appear in three-dimensional forms, but because of the enamel-like layers of paint which cover them. Artist: MINIATURIST, Italian , The Visconti Book of Hours , 1401-1450 , Italian , illumination , religious
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Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum before
1490 Illumination on parchment National Sz?ch?nyi Library, Budapest The miniature is from a manuscript by Ransanus, entitled Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum. he picture depicts Ransanus Speaking in the Presence of King Matthias. Artist: MINIATURIST, Italian , Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum , 1451-1500 , Italian , illumination , historical
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Book of Hours
1490s Illumination on parchment Cathedral Library, Esztergom The miniature depicting the Annunciation comes from a Book of Hours (Flemish Book of Prayers). Artist: MINIATURIST, Flemish , Book of Hours , 1451-1500 , Flemish , illumination , religious
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Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio
1250-1300 Illumination on parchment, 34,4 x 23 cm Biblioteca del Escorial, Madrid The manuscript (The Songs of Alfonso the Wise) contains several stories (1255 scenes on 210 pages) following French examples. On the page reproduced here the life of the marine merchants is narrated, started from the upper left corner of the page. In spite of the strong French influence the ornamental decoration and the coat-of-arms in the corners of the frame are characteristically Spanish. Artist: MINIATURIST, Spanish , Cantigas de Alfonso el Sabio , 1251-1300 , Spanish , illumination , religious
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