Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence / Ludovico de Gaci
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- Accession Number
- 1986/2.85
- Title
- Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence
- Artist
- Ludovico de Gaci
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Medium and Support
- ink, tempera and gold on parchment
- Object Creation Date
- 1489
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Italy (nation)
- Lombardy (region)
- Cremona (province)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Italy (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Lombardy (region)
- Creation Place 4
- Cremona (province)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Renaissance
- Dimensions
- 56.9 cm x 40.2 cm (22 3/8 in. x 15 13/16 in.)
- Century
- 15th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Books and Folios
- Physical Description
- This leaf from a manuscript contains seven lines of Latin text with musical notation. The initial letter, "C," of the opening word "Confessio" is made from a curved vegetal form. The text is preceded by a painted miniature in a circular frame that is, in turn, enclosed by a golden square. The miniature depicts a man with a tonsure and a golden halo standing in a verdant landscape. He holds a palm leaf in his left hand and rests his right hand on a grill. The left and upper margins of the page are decorated with green and pink leaves and flowers and small gold circles.
- Subject Matter
- This manuscript page comes from a gradual, or choir book, used for the performance of the Catholic mass. The haloed figure standing in a verdant landscape at the top of the page is St. Lawrence, holding the grill on which he was roasted to death and the palm leaf that signified his martrydom. The music that accompanies this miniature painting was sung at the opening of the mass held every August 10th to commemorate his death. The verso contains a scribal inscription or colophon in which the Ludovico de Gaci, who both wrote and illuminated the manuscript, gives his name, the date 10 April 1489 when the work was completed, and the name of the patron, the Franciscan friar Franciscus de Bolzano.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 891 x 1235
- File Size
- 130 KB
- Record
- 1986/2.85
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"Leaf from a Gradual with St. Lawrence; Ludovico de Gaci." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1986-sl-2.85/1986_2.85.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024.