Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

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• Council on Library and Information Resources

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Padua or Venice, Italy

Notes

• Initial A with Christ adored by two saints
   
• This initial begins the first response of the first nocturn of Matins for the first Sunday in Advent, 'Aspiciens a longe...' (Long had I been watching). This cutting and other cuttings in the Free Library's collection from the same antiphonary (Lewis E M 26:20-29) are some of the only examples of medieval Italian manuscript illumination in the Free Library's collection. Nearly thirty years after the execution of these initials, the character of Italian illumination and painting would fundamentally change under the leadership of artists such as the Florentine painter Giotto. The abstract tendencies in medieval art seen in these cuttings would eventually give way to a more naturalistic approach to representation, marking the beginning of the Renaissance in the history of art.
   
• This cutting has been dated to ca. 1260-1270.
   
• This image shows the reverse of a cutting with an historiated initial from a choir book.
   

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Keywords

• 13th century
• Antiphonary
• Liturgy
• Italian
• Italy
• Historiated initial
• Fragment

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