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Cristoforo de Predis at the Sforza Court
03/2025 | 1464 | 167
Pages: 206–11
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Author:
Schrader, Jeffrey (Schrader, Jeffrey)
Subjects
artists:
Predis, Cristoforo de / Pedius, Quintus
dates:
1470-1479
museums and institutions:
Wallace Collection, London, Great Britain
patrons:
Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1444-1476
sources:
Pliny, the Elder, 23-79 AD
subjects:
Illuminators / Illuminated manuscripts / Inscriptions / Italian art / Renaissance art / Sforza family / Courts (social groups) / Disabled / Miniaturists
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Marriage of the Virgin, from the Borromeo Book of Hours, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1478 or 1486. Gouache on vellum, 10.3 by 7.6 cm. (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, S.P.42, fol.15v; Mondadori Portfolio; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
2. Initial ‘A’ with Galeazzo Maria Sforza in prayer, by Cristoforo de Predis. Probably 1477. Gouache on vellum, 22.4 by 18.9 cm. (Wallace Collection, London; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
3. Arms and imprese of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, from the Book of Gioacchino and Anna, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1476. Gouache on parchment, 27.3 by 19.1 cm. (Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Codice Varia 124, fol.2v; Bridgeman Images).
Attributed works:
4. St Martin with the poor and Annunciation, from the Ingressarium of Fabrizio Marliani, by Cristoforo de Predis. 1476. Illumination on parchment, 57.2 by 41.2 cm. (Museo Baroffio e del Santuario del Sacro Monte sopra Varese, inv.1000, fol.1r).
Attributed works:
5. Melanthus Cycionius, Apelles, Protogenes Caunius, Quintus Pedius, Praxiteles Graecus, Mecenas, by Joachim von Sandrart. 1683. Engraving. (From J. von Sandrart and P. Killian: L’Academia todesca della architectura, scultura & pittura, oder, Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste, Nuremberg 1683, second part, first book, plate E; New York Public Library).
Attributed works:
6. Details of Figs.4, 3, 2 and 1, showing the various signatures of Cristoforo de Predis.