Silvestro dei Gherarducci
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Silvestro dei Gherarducci (c. 1339 – c. 1399) was an Italian painter and illuminator in Florence. He became a monk and later a prior of the monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli where he first started work on illustrations for manuscripts.
Paintings
[edit]- Madonna and Child with Sts. John Baptist and Paul (?), circa 1375, tempera on panel, 83.82 × 76.835 cm (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.39.1)[1]
- Assumption of the Virgin, circa 1365, tempera on panel, 41 × 27 cm (Pinacoteca Vaticana)[2]
- Madonna and Child, circa 1365–1370, tempera on panel, 49 × 30.5 cm (private collection)[3][4]
- The Assumption of Saint Mary Magdalene, 1380s, tempera on panel, 161.1 × 81.9 cm (National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, NGI.841)[5]
- Madonna and Child, circa 1366–1375, tempera on panel, 164 × 89 cm (Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, inv. 3161)[6][7]
- The Madonna and Child, tempera on panel, 30.5 × 20.3 cm (The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1999.32)[8]
Illuminated manuscripts
[edit]Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli
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Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli, considered to be Don Silvestro's crowning achievement, is currently preserved in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence (Codice Corale 2 / Cod. Cor. 2), with twenty detached pages in various collections around the world:[9]
- folio 15: Saint Stephen Enthroned in an Initial E (private collection, England)[10]
- folio 18: The Four Evangelists in an Initial I (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inv. no. M34)[11]
- folio 23: Saint Silvester in an Initial S (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMB 1797)[12]
- folio 32: Saint Agnes in an Initial M (Library of Geneva, Switzerland)[13]
- folio 42: The Presentation in the Temple in an Initial S (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, Marlay Cutting It. 13A)[14][15]
- folio 49: Saint Scholastica in an Initial V (location unknown)[16]
- folio 56: Saint Benedict Enthroned with Eight Saints (Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, inv. no. M35)[17]
- folio 60: The Annunciation in an Initial R (British Library, London, Add. MS 35254 C)[18][19] + Six Bust-Length Prophets (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, NMB 1797)[19]
- folio 80: Saint Michael Fighting the Dragon in an Initial B (Abegg-Stiftung(de), Riggisberg, Switzerland)
- folio 90: Saint Romuald Enthroned with Four Saints in an Initial O (British Library, Add. MS 37472, folio 3)[20][21]
- folio 97: The Birth of Saint John the Baptist (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, inv. no. 2764)[22][23]
- folio 104: Saints Peter and Paul in an Initial N (private collection, England)[24]
- folio 113: Saint Margaret in an Initial L (private collection, Milan)[25]
- folio 119: Saints James and Andrew in an Initial M (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, inv. no. F61–14)[26][27][28]
- folio 134: Saint Lawrence in an Initial C (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MS W.416)[29][30]
- folio 137: The Virgin and Child in an Initial S (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.1012)[31][32]
- folio 142: The Death and Assumption of the Virgin (British Library, Add. MS 37955 A)[33][34]
- folio 148: The Birth of the Virgin in an Initial G (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 21.168)[35][36]
- folio 155: The Virgin and Christ in Glory in an Initial G (Cleveland Museum of Art, 1930.105)[37][38]
- folio 159: Pope Saint Clement in an Initial D (Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 5-1979)[39]
Gradual 1 from San Michele a Murano
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Gradual 1 from San Michele a Murano can be reconstructed from individual pages and numerous cuttings in various collections:[40]
- folio 1: God the Father Presenting the Infant Christ to a group of Saints in an Initial A (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, MS 434, no. I 30-A)[41][42]
- Saint Paul in an Initial G (Morgan Library & Museum, New York, MS M.478, no. 6 (I.3))[43][44]
- Foliate Decoration in an Initial M (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 983, no. 2868)[45]
- folio 32: The Nativity of Christ in an Initial D (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 966, no. 3074)[46][47]
- The Adoration of the Shepherds in an Initial L (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 967, no. D.229-1906)[48][49]
- folio 38: The Nativity and the Annuciation to the Shepherds in an Initial P (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.653, no. 1 (I.8))[50][51]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 973, no. D.222-1906)[52]
- folio 46: The Adoration of the Magi in an Initial E (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.653, no. 5 (I.15))[53][54]
- A Prophet Looking Up to the Enthroned Christ in an Initial I (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 7 (I.16))[55][56]
- A Prophet in an Initial O (Art Institute of Chicago, acc. no. 1915.550)[57][58]
- A Prophet in an Initial A (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 10 (I.18))[59]
- A Prophet in an Initial С (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 976, no. D.227-1906)[60]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 982, no. D.219-1906)[61][62]
- A Prophet in an Initial R (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 887)
- A Prophet in an Initial O (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS D.217-1906)[63]
- An Initial I (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 886)
- The Entry into Jerusalem in an Initial D (Wildenstein Collection, Musée Marmottan, Paris)[64]
Gradual 2 from San Michele a Murano
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Gradual 2 from San Michele a Murano can be reconstructed from individual pages and numerous cuttings in various collections:[40]
- The Resurrection in an Initial R (Musée Condé, Chantilly, France, inv. no. PE 2)[65][66]
- A Prophet in an Initial A (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 969, no. 432)[67][68]
- A Prophet in an Initial V (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 17 (II.5))[69][70]
- A Prophet in an Initial V (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS D.226-1906)[71]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 3 (II.7))[72]
- A Prophet in an Initial M (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 9 (II.10))[73]
- An Initial I (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 878)
- A Prophet in an Initial C (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 968, no. 431)[74]
- A Prophet in an Initial V (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 970, no. 3087)[75]
- folio 44: The Ascention of Christ in an Initial V (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.653, no. 3 (II.14))[76][77][78]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 4 (II.15))[79]
- folio 58: The Pentecost in an Initial S (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 970, inv. no. 3045)[80][81]
- A Prophet in an Initial A (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 975, no. D.224-1906)[82]
- A Prophet in an Initial R (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 14 (II.26))[83]
- folio 74: The Trinity in an Initial B (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.653, no. 2 (II.23))[84][85][86]
- folio 78: The Last Supper in an Initial C (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.653, no. 4 (II.25))[87][88][89]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 974, no. D.225-1906)[90]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, MS 682)[91]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 981, no. D.221-1906)[92]
- A Prophet in an Initial O (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 11 (II.31))[93][94]
- A Prophet in an Initial S (Victoria and Albert Museum, MS 978, no. D.218-1906)[95]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 5 (II.33))[96]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 1 (II.35))[97]
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 2 (II.36))[98]
- A Prophet in an Initial R (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 15 (II.37))[99]
- A Prophet in an Initial P (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 13 (II.38))[100]
- An Initial I (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 904)
- A Prophet in an Initial M (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 8 (II.40))[101]
- An Initial I (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 879)
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. D.228-1906)[102]
- A Prophet in an Initial S (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 16 (II.43))[70][103][104]
- A Prophet in an Initial O (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.478, no. 12 (II.44))[105]
- A Prophet in an Initial I (Museo Civico, Padua, M.C. 880)
- A Prophet in an Initial D (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.718, no. 18 (II.47))[106]
- A Prophet in an Initial L (formerly, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. D.220-1906; missing since the early 1940s)[107]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (formerly, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no. D.223-1906; missing since the early 1940s)[107]
- A Prophet in an Initial E (private collection, England)[108]
Other works
[edit]- Saint Augustine in an Initial I (Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Codice Corale 19 (Cod. Cor. 19), folio 149)[109][110]
Notes
[edit]- ^ "Madonna and Child with Sts. John Baptist and Paul (russ?)". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "Assumption of the Virgin". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "Madonna and Child". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Madonna col Bambino". Sotheby's. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "The Assumption of Saint Mary Magdalene". National Gallery of Ireland. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ "Madonna and Child". artchive.com. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ "Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Madonna con Bambino, angeli e Cristo Redentore benedicente". Fondazione Federico Zeri. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ "The Madonna and Child". Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 131–154
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 132 fig. 45, p. 133, p. 137 n. 4
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 132 fig. 46, p. 133
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 133 text + fig. 47
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 138–139 text + image
- ^ "Historiated initial from a Gradual". Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 140–141 text + image
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 134, p. 138 n. 7
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 133 fig. 48, p. 134
- ^ "Add MS 35254 C". British Library. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ a b Kanter 1994, pp. 141–144 text + images
- ^ "Additional 37472, f. 3". British Library. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 144, p. 145 image
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 134 text + fig. 49
- ^ Costambeys 2007, p. 161, p. 163 fig. 2
- ^ Russell 1977a
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 135 text + fig. 50
- ^ "Initial "M" with Saints James and Andrew(?)". Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 135, p. 136 figs. 51–52
- ^ Bent 1992, pp. 508–510 text + figs. 1–2
- ^ "Leaf from Antiphonary". Walters Art Museum. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 144–146 text, p. 146 image
- ^ "Initial S[alve sancta parens] from a Gradual: Madonna and Child". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 146–148 text + image
- ^ "Additional 37955A". British Library. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 148–150 text + image
- ^ "Manuscript Illumination with the Birth of the Virgin in an Initial G, from a Gradual". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 150–151 text + image
- ^ "Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 152–153 text + image
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 154 text + image
- ^ a b Kanter 1994, pp. 155–176
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: 434)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 156 fig. 54, p. 157
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 6 (I.3)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 157 text + fig. 55
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: 2868)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: 3074)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 166–167 text + image
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.229-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 167–168 text + image
- ^ "MS M.653.1: Nativity, in an initial P". Morgan Library & Museum. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 168–169 text + image
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.222-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.653.5: Adoration of the Magi, in an initial E". Morgan Library & Museum. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 170–171 text + image
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 7 (I.16)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 157 fig. 56, p. 158
- ^ "Prophet in a Historiated Initial "O" from a Gradual". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 158 text + fig. 57
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 10 (I.18)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.227-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.219-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 158 fig. 58, p. 159
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.217-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 159 text + fig. 59
- ^ Base Joconde: La Resurrection du Christ, French Ministry of Culture. (in French)
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 160 fig. 60
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: 432)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 161, fig. 61
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 17 (II.5)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ a b Zoomable image of MS M.478.16 and M.478.17
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.226-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 3 (II.7)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 9 (II.10)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: 431)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Cut-out historiated initial V from a Gradual (museum number: 3087)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.653 no. 3 (II.14)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Zoomable image of MS M.653.3
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 171–172 text + image
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 4 (II.15)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Leaf from a gradual with an initial S (museum number: 3045)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 162, fig. 62
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.224-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 14 (II.26)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.653 no. 2 (II.23)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Zoomable image of MS M.653.2
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 173–174 text + image
- ^ "MS M.653 no. 4 (II.25)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Zoomable image of MS M.653.4
- ^ Kanter 1994, pp. 174–176 text + image
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.225-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 163, fig. 63
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.221-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 11 (II.31)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 163, fig. 64
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.218-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 5 (II.33)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 1 (II.35)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 2 (II.36)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 15 (II.37)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 13 (II.38)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 8 (II.40)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "Manuscript (museum number: D.228-1906)". Victoria and Albert Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 16 (II.43)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 164, fig. 65
- ^ "MS M.478 no. 12 (II.44)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ "MS M.718 no. 1 (II.47)". Morgan Library & Museum. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
- ^ a b Kanter 1994, p. 165 n. 5
- ^ Russell 1977b
- ^ "This figured initial "I" is from Choir Book 19". Web Gallery of Art. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ^ Kanter 1994, p. 234, n. 4
References
[edit]- George R. Bent (1992). "The Scriptorium at S. Maria degli Angeli and Fourteenth Century Manuscript Illumination: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Don Lorenzo Monaco, and Giovanni del Biondo". Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte. 55 (4): 507–523. doi:10.2307/1482625. JSTOR 1482625.
- Marios Costambeys (2007). The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846310683. google books preview
- Laurence B. Kanter (1994). Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 9780870997259. google books preview
- Pope-Hennessy, John & Kanter, Laurence B. (1987). The Robert Lehman Collection I, Italian Paintings. New York, Princeton: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 0870994794.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (see index; plate 32) - Francis Russell (1977a). "Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci and an Illumination from the Collection of William Young". The Burlington Magazine. 119 (888): 192 + 194–195. JSTOR 878741.
- Francis Russell (1977b). "Another Prophet by Don Silvestro". The Burlington Magazine. 119 (890): 378–379. JSTOR 878794.
External links
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- Biography of Silvestro dei Gherarducci (in Italian)