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Aimo and Vermondo Holding Up the Church of Saint Victor
Creator
Anovelo da ImbonateItalian Illuminator · 1400–present
All works by this person →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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- about 1400
- Medium
- Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink
- Culture
- Italian
- Department
- Manuscripts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- b6e3f04c-15aa-4196-9d9e-9593fc6f4ac2
From the Getty Museum record
Aimo and Vermando hold up a small church within a crenellated walled enclosure. The scene is not recounting a feat of superhuman strength in which the two brothers lift up a building. Rather, the image represents the brothers' financing of a new church dedicated to Saint Victor in the town of Meda. After being saved from an attack of wild boars, the brothers donated money for this church as a way of giving thanks. It is in the church of Saint Victor that the two were eventually buried.
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