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Initial G[audeamus omnes] from a Gradual: The Court of Heaven
Don Silvestro dei GherarducciLinkedCulture matchlcp-c67507b20304
- Date
- 1371–77
- Medium
- ink, tempera, and gold on vellum
- Culture
- Italy, Florence
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 111528
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This elegant and colorful initial G comes from a multivolume set of choral books illuminated by Don Silvestro, a Camaldolese monk, for his monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence. In the original book, this initial would have introduced the text: Gaudeamus omnes in Domino (“Let us rejoice in the Lord”), the beginning of Introit, the introduction, for the Feast of All Saints on November 1. This beautiful initial is generally considered to be the artist’s masterpiece.
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- W.Y. Ottley (London, 1838, no. 182); Edouard Kann, Paris.
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