Lotto 144* - A174 Illuminazioni di manoscritti italiani - venerdì, 18. settembre 2015, 13h30

GIACOMO DI NASCIMBENE, NICOLO DI (NICOLO DA BOLOGNA) (Bologna ca. 1330 – ca. 1404 probably ibid.) Fragment of a leaf of an antiphonary with the initial B and the Baptism of Christ. Vellum. Bologna, ca. 1360-1365. 215 x 163 mm (Initial 80 x 62 mm). Provenance: - Florence, private collection. - Before 1985 Florence, New York, Martello collection. - London Christie's, 24 November 1993, Lot No. 5. - 1994 London Sam Fogg to the current collection. Bibliography: - Miklòs Boskovits, The Martello collection. Paintings ,drawings and miniatures from the XIVth to the XVIIIth centuries, Florence 1985, p.120. - Gaudenz Freuler, Italian Miniatures from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Centuries, Milan 2013, pp. 284-293. - Friedrich G. Zeileis Più ridon le carte (3.ed.), Rauris 2014, pp.120-121. This leaf fragment comes from a dismantled antiphonary. This small and extremely finely painted historiated initial showing the Baptism of Christ, introduces the first antiphonary to the Laudes of the Feast of Saint John the Baptist (24 June). A complete leaf with the figure of Laurentius in an initial L held in a Milanese private collection, was recently proved to have come from the same choir book. In this in fact simple miniature, the illuminator Nicolò di Giacomo exercises his artistic powers to the full and makes plain the reasons why he quickly rose to be the leading illuminator of Bologna in the second half of the 14th century.

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