LOT DETAILS

Materials:

vellum

Measurements:

8.46 in. (21.50 cm.) (height) by 6.42 in. (16.30 cm.) (width)

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. 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.