Antonio da Monza

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Book page by Antonio da Monza from a gradual with the initial 'R' (lat.resurrectio - resurrection)

Fra Antonio da Monza was a northern Italian illuminator who worked in Milan around 1500 . He came from Monza in Lombardy and was a member of the Franciscan Order .

Antonio da Monza could by his signature in a missal he painted , the festive missal , of Pope Alexander VI. be identified. Single sheets of the book, which was cut up in the 19th century, can now be found in the Albertina in Vienna, among other places , there also the title sheet with the master's name. By comparing styles, Antonio da Monza could then be assigned the painting of a few other liturgical books, such as miniatures in a gradual or the pictures in the biography of Count Muzio Attendolo Sforza , founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan

Antonio da Monza , along with the master of the Sforza prayer book and Francesco Binasco , is counted among the three leading illuminators who worked in Milan at the end of the 15th century. At that time, under the rule of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza, known as a patron of the arts , Milan had become a center of art in Northern Italy.

Antonio da Monza is stylistically at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance . The fascination of the Renaissance with antique motifs is reflected in his painting style. Especially in the margins of his pictures there are echoes of the wall paintings of the Golden House , an ancient palace rediscovered in Rome around 1500. He was also influenced by Leonardo da Vinci , who worked in Milan from 1480 and with whose arrival there a previously more conservative style in Lombardy received new impulses.

Antonio da Monza probably also worked as a copper engraver.

literature

  • Adolfo Venturi: Il pontificale di Antonio da Monza nella Biblioteca. Vaticana . In: L'Arte I (1898), pp. 154-167
  • Paul. Oskar Kristeller: Fra Antonio da Monza, incisore . In: Rassegna d'arte I (1901), pp. 161-164
  • Paul. Oskar Kristeller: The Lombard graphic of the Renaissance . Berlin, 1913
  • Achille Ratti: Frate A. da Monza incisore? - Contributo alla storia delle arti grafiche milanesi . In: Rassegna d'arte XII (1912), pp. 133-139
  • Francesco Malaguzzi-Valeri: Sul miniatore frate Antonio da Monza . In: Rassegna d'arte XVI (1916), pp. 28-37
  • Mario Salmi: La miniatura italiana . Milan 1956
  • Roberto Longhi (Ed.): Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza . Milan 1958 (exhibition catalog)
  • Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker: General encyclopedia of visual artists from antiquity to the present. Volume 2: Antonio da Monza - Bassan . Munich (dtv) 1992
  • Thomas Kren, Kurt Barstow: Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum . Washington 2006

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul J. Getty Museum, MS. LUDWIG VI 3
  2. ↑ Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Ms Italy 372
  3. ^ Paul Wescher: Francesco Binasco, miniature painter of the Sforza . In: Yearbook of the Berlin museums, 2nd volume, (1960), p. 75
personal data
SURNAME Antonio da Monza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Italian illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Monza
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century