Cristoforo de Predis at the Sforza Court

• Autores: Jeffrey Schrader
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 167, Nº 1464, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: European decorative arts at the Met), págs. 206-211
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • An analysis of the signatures of the Renaissance miniaturist Cristoforo de Predis on four manuscript folios demonstrates that the artist signalled the fact that he was mute in order to align his achievements with those of Quintus Pedius, a mute painter from Antiquity, whose disability was described in an eulogy by Pliny the Elder. De Predis was thus able to enhance both his status and that of the Sforza dukes, whose patronage he enjoyed in Milan