Cutting from a choir book

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Cutting from a choir book

Olivetan Master

Date
about 1450
Medium
Tempera and gold
Culture
Italian
Department
Manuscripts
Institution
Getty Museum

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Creator

Olivetan Master

Italian Illuminator · 1425–1450

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The Olivetan Master is called by this name because of a signature found in an illuminated initial from Milan, dated 1439 (now belonging to The Cini Foundation, Venice) that describes him as a brother of the Order of Monteoliveto, which indicates that he was an Olivetan monk himself. Besides the Getty cutting, his work is known through several other initials in different collections and an illumina

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