Accession number
MS M.1134
Object title
Pope Clement VII asperging the congregation before mass (composite leaf with miniature).
Created
Rome, Italy, 1523
Credit line
Purchased on the Stillman Fund, 2003.
Description
1 leaf, matted : vellum, illuminated ; 500 x 380 mm
Provenance
Sistine Chapel; looted by Napoleon's troops; Abate Luigi Celotti, who cuts up the choir books, made them into montages ca. 1826, and sold them at Christie's London, 26 May 1825, lot 73; Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, purchased from him on the Stillman Fund, 2003.
Notes
Ms. single leaf (composite), matted, in gilt frame (Paris, before 1813) set into a second black and gilt shadow-box frame (England, ca. 1840); the source of the cuttings is one or more of the Missals of the Sistine Chapel commissioned by either Pople Clement VII or Pope Leo X, illuminated in Rome, 1523.
Border strips contain the devices and monograms of Pope Clement VII (de' Medici).
Decoration: 1 miniature depicting Pope Clement VII asperging the congregation before mass.
Artist: Vincenzo Raimondi.
Border strips contain the devices and monograms of Pope Clement VII (de' Medici).
Decoration: 1 miniature depicting Pope Clement VII asperging the congregation before mass.
Artist: Vincenzo Raimondi.
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