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Legenda Venerabilium Virorum Aymonis et Vermondi

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Italian Illuminator · 1400–present

An illuminator and possibly a panel painter, Anovelo da Imbonate worked in Milan at the end of the 1300s and the beginning of the 1400s. In those years, the wealth, international connections, and intellectual sophistication of Milan's ruling family gave rise to a flourishing artistic culture. One of the artists working for these rulers developed a version of the International style influenced by F

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Date: about 1400
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
Culture: Italian
Department: Manuscripts
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: 9d33406f-6bf0-42c6-87a2-cc85722d58eb

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This manuscript recounts in words and pictures the lives and miraculous after-lives of two aristocratic brothers, Aimo and Vermondo, who lived in Milan at the end of the 700s (the text is written in Latin, with the title *Legenda venerabilium virorum Aymonis et Vermondi).* It may have belonged to the church that they founded, where their tombs were located and which also owned another illustrated manuscript of their lives. The book would have served as a document confirming the miraculous power of the saintly brothers' mortal remains. It might otherwise have belonged to a devout follower of Aimo and Vermondo. Those who sought miraculous cures or made pilgrimages to a saint's shrine often owned copies of that saint's biography.

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