The Smirne Phisiologus and Two More Illuminated Paleologan Manuscripts

Massimo Bernaḅ
Following the Paleologan reconquest of Constantinople, at the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century, Byzantine scholars turned again to ancient literature in search of models to be imitated and revived. Likewise, artists introduced in their works quotations from ancient statuary (e.g., the Cnidian Aphrodite, griffins, archers, etc.). Such a learned eclecticism drove artists to search models in foreign civilizations, that is Islamic and, possibly, Latin. The paper discusses three cases of illuminated manuscripts from the beginning of the 14th century, in which various visual and written sources are quoted or used: the lost manuscript of the Physiologus, once in Smyrna, the Octateuch in the Laurentian Library in Florence, and a miscellaneous codex of Hellenistic poetry in the same library.
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Massimo Bernaḅ The Smirne Phisiologus and Two More Illuminated Paleologan Manuscripts
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vai all'articolo » pag. 37-45
Emanuela Spagnoli Coins in Decorated 15th-Century Margins. Preliminary Notes and Two Case Studies
vai all'articolo » pag. 46-54
Ulrike Bauer-Eberhardt Repeating or Modifying? The Illustrations in De re militari by Roberto Valturio
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vai all'articolo » pag. 63-75
Laura Zabeo Reinterpreting the Antiquity in the Roman Humanistic Manuscript
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Chiara Paniccia The Icon of a Prince and His Models: The Illuminated Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro
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Giuseppa Z. Zanichelli Reuse Strategies for Book of Hours
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Teresa D’Urso Antiquity Revival and Mantegnesque Citations in Aragonese Naples: The Manuscripts with Stained Membrane Pages Commissioned by Diomede Carafa
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Hans-Joachim Eberhardt Giulio Clovio and Girolamo dai Libri in Candiana: Illustrating Vasari and the Contemporary Activity of Two Geniuses
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vai all'articolo » pag. 121-130
Chiara Ponchia From Devotion to Collecting. An Illuminated Cutting from a Venetian Mariegola of the 15th Century (Venice, Correr Museum, Cl. II 673)
vai all'articolo » pag. 131-139
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Eleonora Mattia The Copy and Its Creative Interpretation: Pietro Krohn and His Illumination Models at the Designmuseum Danmark
vai all'articolo » pag. 149-156
Francesca Manzari, Milva Tolentinati A Mysterious Example of Collecting in Ancona: The Illuminated Cuttings at the Biblioteca della Soprintendenza Archeologica delle Marche
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vai all'articolo » pag. 200-208
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vai all'articolo » pag. 216-221
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