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Known Masters and their Immediate Followers.
THE MASTER OF THE SFORZA BOOK OF HOURS
(Antonio da Monza?).
The engravings next to be described stand in close relation to the
following group of Milanese miniatures and illuminations :—
(i) Book of Hours of Bona Sforza. B. M. MSS. Add. 34294. (See G. F.
Warner, Miniatures and Borders srom the Sforza Book of Hours, London,
1894.)
(ii) G. Simonetta. Historia delle cose facte dallo invictissimo Francesco Sforza
.tradocta in Lingua Fiorentina da Christophoro Landino. Milan,
1490, fol.
(Border and miniatures on first page of text.) B. M. L., Grenville 7251.
Reproductions: G. F. Warner, Sforza Book, 1894; L’Arte I, p. 154.
(iii) Document recording Marriage Grant from Lodovico Sforza to Beatrice
d’Este, 1494. B. M., MSS. Add. 21413 (border miniatures).
(iv) Antonio Minuti: Compendia di Gesti di Sforza (i.e. Muzio Sforza Attendolo).
Bearing dates 1490 and 1497. Written by B. Gambagnola of Cremona.
Paris, Bibl. Nat., MSS. Ital. 372.
(v) G. Simonetta : Historia delle Cose .... dallo . . . Francesco Sforza. Milan,
1490, fol. (Border and miniatures on first page.) Paris, Bibl. Nat.
(vi) Two Miniatures in the Collection of Leopold Goldschmidt, Paris.
(a) The Virgin and Child with saints, angels and a kneeling man (Giovanni
Francesco Gonzaga ?) : with the inscription an ma at foot of the throne (which
Kristeller explains as possibly Antonio Monza).
((b) Christ bearing the Cross, with the kneeling figure of a lady (Isabella
d’Este ?).
^Reproductions: L’Arte, I (1898), p. 163.)
About 1494 ?.
(vii) Donato: Grainmatica. Collection of Prince Trivulzio (Milan). Cod. No. 2167.
Ab. 1498.
See G. Porro, Catalogo dei Codici Manoscritti della Trivulziana, 1884.
(viii) Libro del Jesus. Collection of Prince Trivulzio. Cod. No. 2163.
Ab. 1496-97.
(ix) Fragments of a Book of Miniatures. Uffizi.
(Reproductions: L’Arte II. p. 114).
(x) Pontificals in the Vatican Library (Codice ottoboniano latino, n. 501).
Miniatures.
(See Venturi, L’Arte I. p. 154, for description and reproductions).
The miniatures vary greatly in quality and undoubtedly show the
work of several hands trained apparently in one workshop and under
one master.
Nearest of all in details of style to our engraver are the two
miniatures of the Goldschmidt Collection (vi), but those by the
leading hand in the Ssorza Book os Hours (i) and the Border to the
Grenville Ssorziada (ii) show almost as close and undeniable con-
nexion. Besides the identity of style in the borders of these minia-
Known Masters and their Immediate Followers.
THE MASTER OF THE SFORZA BOOK OF HOURS
(Antonio da Monza?).
The engravings next to be described stand in close relation to the
following group of Milanese miniatures and illuminations :—
(i) Book of Hours of Bona Sforza. B. M. MSS. Add. 34294. (See G. F.
Warner, Miniatures and Borders srom the Sforza Book of Hours, London,
1894.)
(ii) G. Simonetta. Historia delle cose facte dallo invictissimo Francesco Sforza
.tradocta in Lingua Fiorentina da Christophoro Landino. Milan,
1490, fol.
(Border and miniatures on first page of text.) B. M. L., Grenville 7251.
Reproductions: G. F. Warner, Sforza Book, 1894; L’Arte I, p. 154.
(iii) Document recording Marriage Grant from Lodovico Sforza to Beatrice
d’Este, 1494. B. M., MSS. Add. 21413 (border miniatures).
(iv) Antonio Minuti: Compendia di Gesti di Sforza (i.e. Muzio Sforza Attendolo).
Bearing dates 1490 and 1497. Written by B. Gambagnola of Cremona.
Paris, Bibl. Nat., MSS. Ital. 372.
(v) G. Simonetta : Historia delle Cose .... dallo . . . Francesco Sforza. Milan,
1490, fol. (Border and miniatures on first page.) Paris, Bibl. Nat.
(vi) Two Miniatures in the Collection of Leopold Goldschmidt, Paris.
(a) The Virgin and Child with saints, angels and a kneeling man (Giovanni
Francesco Gonzaga ?) : with the inscription an ma at foot of the throne (which
Kristeller explains as possibly Antonio Monza).
((b) Christ bearing the Cross, with the kneeling figure of a lady (Isabella
d’Este ?).
^Reproductions: L’Arte, I (1898), p. 163.)
About 1494 ?.
(vii) Donato: Grainmatica. Collection of Prince Trivulzio (Milan). Cod. No. 2167.
Ab. 1498.
See G. Porro, Catalogo dei Codici Manoscritti della Trivulziana, 1884.
(viii) Libro del Jesus. Collection of Prince Trivulzio. Cod. No. 2163.
Ab. 1496-97.
(ix) Fragments of a Book of Miniatures. Uffizi.
(Reproductions: L’Arte II. p. 114).
(x) Pontificals in the Vatican Library (Codice ottoboniano latino, n. 501).
Miniatures.
(See Venturi, L’Arte I. p. 154, for description and reproductions).
The miniatures vary greatly in quality and undoubtedly show the
work of several hands trained apparently in one workshop and under
one master.
Nearest of all in details of style to our engraver are the two
miniatures of the Goldschmidt Collection (vi), but those by the
leading hand in the Ssorza Book os Hours (i) and the Border to the
Grenville Ssorziada (ii) show almost as close and undeniable con-
nexion. Besides the identity of style in the borders of these minia-