Initial A: The Women at the Tomb

Creator

Italian Illuminator · 1460–1480

One of the most talented Lombard illuminators of the second half of the 1400s, Bartolomeo Rigossi painted and signed an initial in a choir book that a local noble gave to the cathedral at Monferrato. He was also responsible for the illumination of another choir book, most probably made for a Carthusian monastery. Because his landscapes seem to have been inspired by contemporary Ferrarese art, scho