The essay presents the illuminations of eight manuscripts realized in Italy between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century and belonged to the collection of Marquard Gude. These codices are very different from each other: study books, large volumes of the Fathers of the Church, a Book of Hours, and especially some works containing the Latin classics. The painted images or the decorations have been analyzed in relation to the texts, in the effort to understand their function and the clients’choices. In two cases, the identification of the coat of arms allowed us to recognize the original owners with the members of noble families such as the Venetian Diedo and a Cardinal of the Borgia family. The illuminations, the portraits of the author, or the all’antica or realistic decorations were produced in the Venetian area, in Florence, and in Ferrara, and in some cases were realized by important masters such as Bartolomeo Varnucci author of a Terence belonged to Pietro da Montagnana. The items analyzed show how Gude, certainly more interested in the texts, was able, during his trip to Italy, to purchase several works very important from the point of view of the history of illumination.

Word and image. Italian Illuminations in the manuscripts of the Marquard Gude’s collection at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel

TONIOLO, FEDERICA
2016

Abstract

The essay presents the illuminations of eight manuscripts realized in Italy between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century and belonged to the collection of Marquard Gude. These codices are very different from each other: study books, large volumes of the Fathers of the Church, a Book of Hours, and especially some works containing the Latin classics. The painted images or the decorations have been analyzed in relation to the texts, in the effort to understand their function and the clients’choices. In two cases, the identification of the coat of arms allowed us to recognize the original owners with the members of noble families such as the Venetian Diedo and a Cardinal of the Borgia family. The illuminations, the portraits of the author, or the all’antica or realistic decorations were produced in the Venetian area, in Florence, and in Ferrara, and in some cases were realized by important masters such as Bartolomeo Varnucci author of a Terence belonged to Pietro da Montagnana. The items analyzed show how Gude, certainly more interested in the texts, was able, during his trip to Italy, to purchase several works very important from the point of view of the history of illumination.
2016
Retter Der Antike. Marquard Gude (1635-1689) auf der Suche nacht den Klassikern
9783447106597
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