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Leaf from a Doge’s Commission
Artist: Mannerist Master
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, 223 x 159 mm
CONTENTS: Commission issued by Doge Gerolamo Priuli (1559-1567), appointing Renier Vitturi to the post of Proveditore of Gambara (near Brescia).
DECORATION: Full-page miniature with half-length figure of Renier Vitturi praying before a vision of the Crucifixion, set in a full historiated border with sections of formal ornament, an Annunciation (outer corners of the upper margin), the Lion of St Mark (top centre) and the arms of the Vitturi family (lower border), the border painted in chiaroscuro gold on a dark red ground.
ORNAMENTATION: The first four lines of the text written in gold epigraphic capitals on verso.
History note: Commission produced for Renier Vitturi, Venice
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
16th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1559
CE
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Circa
1567
CE
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: Marlay cutting It. 49
Primary reference Number: 176610
Project ID: 1394
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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