LOT DETAILS

Materials:

vellum

Size Notes:

approx.

Provenance:

2006, Basel, Jörn Günther. - Acquired from the above collection by the current owner. - Gaudenz Freuler, Ancora sulla miniatura senese dei secoli XIII-XV. Postille ad un libro (parte I), in: Arte Cristiana, XCVII 2009, pp. 279 ff. - L' Arte di Francesco. Capolavori d'Arte Italiana e Terre d'Asia dal XII al XV secolo (Ausstellungskatalog, Florence, Galleria dell'Accademia, 31.3-11.Oct.2015), Florence 2015, pp.386-387. . Further cited literature: - William M.Voelkle, Roger S. Wieck, The Bernard Breslauer Collection of Art. Manuscript Illuminations, New York 1992, p 164. The illuminators under discussion here define an as yet rarely documented moment in Florentine manuscript art, that of the followers of Cimabue in the last two decades of the 13th century on the cusp of the era of Giotto.