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Lotto 146* - 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.) Historiated initial M cut from an antiphonary with Saint Dominic and a Dominican nun in adoration. Vellum. Bologna, ca. 1375. 225 x 170 mm. Provenance: - Swiss private collection. - 2006, London, Sam Fogg. - 2007 to the current collection Bibliography: - 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. 124-125. Saint Dominic, who faces the viewer directly with an open book and his attribute, the lily, stands before the central bar of the initial M. This initial, painted by the Bolognese Nicolò di Giacomo, is one of a number of initials cut from a larger choir book series made for a Dominican women's house (see also Cat 145), and can be dated to 1370-75.
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