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Frontispiece of the Ambrosian Virgil, also known as Petrarch's Virgil, c.1300-26 (vellum)

Frontispiece of the Ambrosian Virgil, also known as Petrarch's Virgil,  c.1300-26 (vellum)
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Image title
Frontispiece of the Ambrosian Virgil, also known as Petrarch's Virgil, c.1300-26 (vellum)
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Artist
Martini, Simone (1284-1344) / Italian
Location
Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
Medium
vellum
Date
c. 1300 AD - c. 1326 AD (C13th AD - C14th AD)
Dimensions
41x26.5 cms
Image description

With notes by Francesco Petrarca. On the top right Virgil reclines under a tree holding a quill and book while grammarian Maurus Servius Honoratus points him out to Aeneas from behind a pulled curtain. Below them is a peasant (symbolizing the Georgics) works with a billhook and a shepherd (symbolizing the Eclogues). Inv A 79 inf 001 verso.

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Gift of Charles Rosenbloom / Bridgeman Images
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art / Martini Simone (1284-1344) / Italy / Europe / painter / artist / trojan hero / men / peasants / symbolic / chopping / figures / manuscript / ancient rome / international gothic / cartouches / literary figures / white robes / illumination / classical / poetry / italian renaissance / poet / chop / literature / roman / codex / virgilian allegory

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