Attavante degli Attavanti

Illumination by Attavante degli Attavanti in a manuscript by Marsilio Ficino's Latin translation of Plotinus Enneades (dedication copy for Lorenzo il Magnifico . Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana , Plut. 82.10, fol. 3r, late 15th century)

Missal in the library in Brussels

Attavante degli Attavanti (also Gabriello di Vante ; * 1452 in Castelfiorentino , † around 1525 in Florence ) was an Italian painter.

Attavante was active since 1476 in the execution of miniature paintings in Bibles, Mass and Gospel books, antiphonaries and manuscripts of works by ancient authors for the Duke of Urbino Federico da Montefeltro , for the Medici , the Cathedral of Florence and especially for King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary .

He composed his border decorations, head strips, initials etc. with a great deal of imagination and taste in the spirit of the early Renaissance and gave them a great painterly and material charm by inserting replicas of antique gems, busts, statues, precious stones and all kinds of animal figures. His main works are:

Missal in the library in Brussels (around 1485/87)
Manuscript of Martianus Capella (St. Mark's Library in Venice)
Bible in the Vatican Library
Bible of seven volumes in the Belem monastery in Portugal

He is also assigned three manuscripts from the Hamilton collection in Berlin.

literature

Renata Cipriani: Attavanti, Attavante. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 4: Arconati-Bacaredda. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1962.
Attavante di Gabriello di Vante di Francesco di Bartolo . In: Ulrich Thieme , Felix Becker (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker. tape 2 : Antonio da Monza-Bassan . Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1908, p. 214–216 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

Web links

Commons : Attavante degli Attavanti - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

↑ The whereabouts of the works and collections refer to 1889. They can be at a different location today.

personal data
SURNAME	Attavanti, Attavante degli
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gabriello di Vante; Attavanti, llamado Attavante degli; Attavante di Gabriello di Vante di Francesco di Bartolo; Attavanti, Attavante Degli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1452
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castelfiorentino
DATE OF DEATH	1525
Place of death	Florence

[1] The whereabouts of the works and collections refer to 1889. They can be at a different location today.