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Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Sixth Day of Creation

early 1300s
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(Italian)
Italy, Bologna
tempera on vellum
Sheet: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.)
The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection 2006.9
Location: 115 Manuscripts & Textiles
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As revealed by their subjects and blank versos (reverse sides), these medallions were undoubtedly excised from a Genesis page in a large lectern Bible. Typically, such medallions would have appeared in conjunction with a large-scale historiated initial I running the full length of the text and introducing the book of Genesis: In principio creativit Deus caelum et terram (In the beginning God created heaven and earth). Such schemes of page layout and decoration were common features of Bibles produced in Bolognese workshops and destined for wealthy religious institutions of the Emilian region, for which Bologna was the artistic and intellectual center.
Tempera, paint made from egg yolk, circular painting with figures outlined in brown of a nude man looking and reaching out towards a person wrapped in white with a gold halo floating in on a cloud against a solid blue sky. Below, a central green tree leans right in a pale brown landscape. A white bird, blue, orange, and brown four-legged animals, and small, curled up creature with pointy ears all face the nude man.

Medallion from the Border of a Latin Bible: The Sixth Day of Creation

early 1300s

Primo Miniatore di San Domenico

(Italian)
Italy, Bologna

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