Ildebrandino Conti's Missal and Its Illuminators: The Maestro Avignonese and the Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio

Giordana Mariani Canova
The article analyzes a Missal (Padua, Biblioteca Capitolare, B 26) belonged to the Bishop of Padua Ildebrandino Conti (1319-1352) who, at his death, donated it to his cathedral. The style of the illuminations indicates that it was executed around 1319-1320, at about the time he was appointed bishop of Padua, at Avignon where Ildebrandino lived for a long time at the Papal court. Two different illuminators realized the many brush-decorated letters without figures: the Maestro Avignonese, who made many initials, is undoubtedly a refined French illuminator who works in the style of the illumination common in Avignon around 1320. Next to him, in some letters, worked an Italian master identifiable with the Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio that we know for his illuminations in some superb liturgical manuscripts realized for Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi in Avignon. The Ildebrandino Missal definitively confirms the activity of the illuminator at the Papal court in France and we regret that in the Ildebrandino Conti's manuscript some pages, that probably contained particularly valuable illuminations by the Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio's hand, have been lost.

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Teresa D’Urso Cava and the Mediterranean. Some Manuscripts from the Norman-Swabian Period
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Fabrizio Crivello A Glossed Psalter in Late Geometrical Style in Mainz
vai all'articolo » pag. 29-32
Silvia Maddalo Histories on the Margins. Notes on the Manfred Bible in Turin
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Federica Volpera Schlatt, Eisenbibliothek, MS 20: A New Acquisition to Late Thirteenth-Century Genoese Manuscript Production
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Laura Pasquini Henry VII and the Figurative Representation of Royalty: The Manuscript Sources
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Giordana Mariani Canova Ildebrandino Conti's Missal and Its Illuminators: The Maestro Avignonese and the Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio
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Marco Rossi A Figurative Addition to Giovanni Visconti's Milan: The Chronica urbis lat. 4946
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Antonella Cattaneo The Illustrative Apparatus of Huon d'Auvergne in Berlin
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Massimo Medica Cicero at the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid: An Illuminated Manuscript from the Visconti's Court Still to Be Studied
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Giuliana Algeri Remarks on the “Bodmer Prayer Book” by Michelino da Besozzo
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Gennaro Toscano A Book of Hours Illuminated by Leonardo da Besozzo for Alfonso the Magnanimous (Vienna, O¨sterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 1886)
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Giovanna Saroni Unpublished Fragments of a Savoyard Book of Hours
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Federica Toniolo Illuminated Incunabula by the Urbinate and Ferrarese Workshop of Federico da Montefeltro
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Lilian Armstrong Roberto Valturio, De re militari, 1472. A Note on the Hand-illuminated Copy in Houghton Library of Harvard University
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Anca Delia Moldovan Astrology and Agriculture in the Calendar of the Offiziolo of Charles VIII (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, inv. 2502/4)
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Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli The Master of the Breviary of San Giovanni Evangelista
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Elena De Laurentiis The Choir Books in the Centro Studi Francescani per la Liguria. Some New Illuminations by Michele da Genova
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Elli Doulkaridou Ramantani Two Illuminated Statuti from the Archive of San Giovanni Decollato in Rome
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Antonio Iacobini, Giulia Orofino, Xavier Barral i Altet Opus Romanum. Un nuovo libro sulla miniatura a Roma nel Duecento
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