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Made for a Prince: The Great Hours of Galeazzo Maria Sforza

Oktober 3, 2023

This is a luxurious and large format Book of Hours written and illuminated for Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Count of Pavia and Duke of Milan. With five splendid title-pages with golden display script, one hundred large illuminated initials, small historiated initial with part-border, historiated initials and inhabited borders containing family emblems, ducal arms, monogram and portraits of patron. It is a witness of humanistic learning in Renaissance Italy. Not least due to the illuminator’s expert use of liquid gold, it presents a work of formidable Italian manuscript production.

 

To see this and other splendid manuscripts in person, visit us at our stand E3 at Frieze Masters London, from 11-15 October at The Regent’s Park. We look forward to welcome you at our stand!

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