Leaf from a Doge’s Commission

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Illuminated manuscript. Leaf from a Dogeâs Commission. Huntington Master. Illumination, penwork, parchment, gold, 208 x 147 mm, pasted on parchment mount, 203 x 141 mm, circa 1590. Production Place: Italy, Venice. DECORATION: Full-page oval miniature with recipient kneeling and holding a richly-bound book while being presented to the Virgin and Child by St Mark, with St Anthony Abbot reading behind him, surrounded by a full inhabited border in gold formal ornament with medallions housing the lion of St Mark in the upper bar, Justice and Prosperity painted in grisaille on blue grounds on left and right respectively, and the arms of the Contarini family (bendy or and azure) in the lower bar.
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