Resumen de "Conturbata sunt ossa mea". Miniature per la Confraternita di Santa Maria della Morte di Bologna (1540-1555)
"Conturbata sunt ossa mea". Miniatures for the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte, Bologna (1540-1555).
The Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte of Bologna, created in 1336, was one of the most important lay institutions that carries out charitable activities. The confraternity, which provided assistance for people sentenced to death, was the holder of an illustrated Psalter (Bologna, Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio, B 4364), dated 1540. It includes unpublished miniatures that were composed by the same illustrator who decorated other liturgical manuscripts preserved in the Museo Civico Medievale of Bologna. This contribution reviews the literature about this unknown illustrator's work. He worked for prestigious Bolognese institutions, such as the nunnery of Saint Agnes and the Confraternity of Santa Maria della Morte. The painter Prospero Fontana was also in contact with these institutions during the same period: he was the author of the altarpieces in the church of the Dominican nuns and in the oratory of the confraternity. Moreover, he is thought to be the author of the unpublished miniature in the "Matricola degli huomini della Compagnia dell'Hospitale di Santa Maria della Morte". The miniature appears in the opening of the codex, dated 1555 and preserved in the Biblioteca Comunale dell'Archiginnasio of Bologna (Fondo Ospedali, 41).
