The Nativity
- Type of resource
- mixed material
- Imprint
- Florence
- Date created
- [ca. 1410]
- Language
- Latin
Digital content
Context
Item belongs to a collection
T. Robert & Katherine States Burke collection of late medieval and early Renaissance miniatures, 1175-1610
41 framed Italian miniatures, panel paintings, and illuminated pages, as well as two codices.
- Digital collection
- 47 digital items
- Physical collection
- 43 items
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Artist
- Simone Camaldolese
Abstract/Contents
- Description
- Don Simone Camaldolese (Florence, c. 1410) Nativity. (375 x 295 mm) Don Simone was a leader of the school of manuscript illumination at the Monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli that also included Lorenzo Monaco and Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. This miniature depicts the scene of the Nativity within an initial H, which introduces the Antiphon “Hodie Christus natus est” (Today Christ is born) sung on Christmas day. The miniature appears to come from an Antiphonary in the church of Santa Croce in Florence that Boskovitz attributes to the peak of Don Simone’s development, calling it comparable to the paintings of Lorenzo Monaco.
Subjects
- Genre
- Illuminations (painting)
Bibliographic information
- Location
- https://purl.stanford.edu/zs441bv4229
- Item: 19
- M2223
- Repository
- Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
