Un frammento inedito del Kupferstichkabinett di Berlino ed una proposta per Pietro Cavallini miniatore

• Autores: Beatrice Alai
• Localización: Rivista di storia della miniatura, ISSN 1126-4772, Nº. 18, 2014, págs. 39-47
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • An unpublished fragment in the Berliner Kupferstichkabinett and a proposal for Pietro Cavallini as illuminator.

    The article examines an Italian illuminated initial E found in the storage room of the Berliner Kupferstichkabinett, representing "Christ blessing some Apostles and Monks" (parch., 150x176 mm), dating around the end of thirteenth century, and cut out from an antiphonary. On the basis of a stylistic analysis, the cutting is discussed in relation with the late Duecento Roman paintings, suggesting a comparison with Pietro Cavallini's frescoes and panels. Moreover, the fragment is compared with a group of Roman manuscripts illuminated in the last decade of thirteenth century and attributed from the critical studies to Cavallini. Similarities and differences in the stylistic and iconographical features are thus pointed out. The E is also compared with the Bible A 72 preserved in Catania (Biblioteche Riunite Civica e Ursino Recupero), a masterpiece of the Neapolitan production of Cavallini (after 1308). Eventually, the paper seeks to shed light on the chronology of the cutting, stressing the affinity with Cavallini's wall painting of the "Last Judgement" in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere in Rome, and proposing an attribution to Cavallini's workshop or even to Cavallini himself.