Giovanni da Gaibana

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Giovanni da Gaibana from Padua was a copyist and possibly also an illuminator in the second half of the 13th century. His epistolar, dated 1259, is counted among the remarkable works of an Italo-Byzantine tradition of Gothic book illumination in Italy . He was a clergyman at the Cathedral of Padua, and the scribe who copied the texts of this liturgical book from the Old Testament and the New Testament in Gothic script. The book illuminations in this work are ascribed to him or at least to his employees .

style

Due to the contacts between the trading city of Venice and Byzantium , book illumination remained influenced by Byzantine art throughout southern Italy - especially in Venice itself, but also in Padua - until the end of the 13th century. Works were created based on the style of icon painting of the East. The works ascribed to Giovanni da Gaibana and his circle also show the adoption and further development of the depiction of the facial expressions and folds of clothing that are typical in this art. Some works are grouped around da Gaibana based on a typical accentuation of the folds with white .

Paduan school

In addition to the epistolar, several manuscripts with texts and illuminations in the same Italo-Byzantine style that were created in the workshop or the circle of Giovanni da Gaibana have been preserved today. The artists who created these illuminations up to around 1295 are sometimes summarized by art historians as the Paduan School .

Works (selection)

  • Giovanni da Gaibana: L'Epistolario Miniato. c. 1259. Padua, Biblioteca capitolare ms. SS
  • Giovanni da Gaibana and two assistants: miniatures for a psalter. circa 1265. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, MS 36-1950

literature

  • Claudio Bellinati, Sergio Bettini (eds.): L'Epistolario Miniato di Giovanni da Gaibana (= Saggi e Studi di Storia dell'Arte 11, ZDB -ID 1102736-8 ). 2 volumes ( facsimile and commentary). Neri Pozza, Vicenza 1968, (Italian).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sergio Bettini: Le miniature dell'Epistolario di Giovanni da Gaibana nella storia della pittura veneziana del Duecento. In: Claudio Bellinati, Sergio Bettini (eds.): L'Epistolario Miniato di Giovanni da Gaibana. Commentary tape. Neri Pozza, Vicenza 1968, pp. 69-120.
  2. ↑ Library of Philadelphia: Description of a handwritten Bible from Padua Lewis E 36. Online ibwww.library.phila.gov o. J., accessed October 2009 (English)
  3. ↑ Ingrid Hänsel-Hacker: The miniature painting of a Paduan school in the Duecento. In: Yearbook of the Austrian Byzantine Society (JÖBG). Vol. 2, 1952, ZDB -ID 2550-1 , pp. 105-148.

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personal data
SURNAME Gaibana, Giovanni there
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 13th century or 14th century