Anna Melograni: Sei fogli in cerca d’autore: Nuove proposte per il Maestro del Breviario Francescano
Six illuminated leaves in search of an author:
new proposals for the Master of the Franciscan Breviary
The present article discusses the six illuminated folios detached at an unknown date from a choir-book of which all trace has been lost. The loose folios are now conserved in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome. Recovered by the Carabinieri of the Nucleo Tutela per il Patrimonio Artistico in the 1990s, as part of a complex operation involving heterogeneous vellum codices of various provenance, nothing is known of their history, nor is it possible to reconstruct when exactly they entered the Roman church or whether they belonged to a codex specially produced for the Franciscan community of the Aracoeli. The choir-book from which the six folios were detached, can, on the basis of the type of liturgical text, be identified as a psalter-hymnal. Since there exists no documentation proving their original provenance, it was decided to publish the folios with the aim of facilitating their recognition and, if possible, locating the codex from which they were torn out. On the basis of the few miniatures present in these loose sheets, the author has identified the artist as the Master of the Franciscan Breviary, whose production is for the time being confined to the years 1440-1460 and almost always for Franciscan patronage.
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3 Novembre 2023, 10:31