Decorated Initial V

Creator

Italian Illuminator · 1473–1430

Not content to establish his workshop in one location, manuscript illuminator Belbello da Pavia, also known as Luchino di Giovanni Belbello, traveled around northern Italy in the mid-fifteenth century working for many of the leading ruling families at the courts of Milan, Ferrara, and Mantua. He was expelled from Mantua in 1450 after having been convicted of a grave crime, and he eventually settle