Le "Meditationes Vitae Christi" della Notre Dame University. Uno studio iconografico e un'aggiunta al catalogo di Stefano degli Azzi

• Chiara Balbarini ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Pisa

     University of Pisa

     Pisa, Italia

     
• Localización: Rivista di storia della miniatura, ISSN 1126-4772, Nº. 20, 2016, págs. 103-114
• Idioma: italiano
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  • The Notre Dame University "Meditationes Vitae Christi": an iconographic study and an addition to Stefano degli Azzi's catalogue.

    The "Meditationes Vitae Christi" is the best known retelling of Christ's life that fills the gaps left by the Gospels' accounts with an emotive and charming narrative. It has long been cited by art historians as a source for late medieval iconographic innovations. Nevertheless only few early illustrated manuscripts have been investigated in relation with the audience and the iconographic tradition. The four manuscripts from the fourteenth-century Italy analyzed here are very differenteith regard to their approach to illustrate the text because they have been created for very different patrons. The analysis of a little known Bolognese manuscript in Notre Dame University, here assigned to Stefano degli Azzi, focuses on a particular imagery that responses to the needs of a specific audience, probably a male lay, medium learned, who belonged to a devotional confraternity. Special attention is dedicated to the iconography of the Passion in order to verify relations with the text or with figurative models.