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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Matteo da Milano Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: c. 1380 - 1439 Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Milan Creator Name-CRT: Matteo da Milano Title: Cutting from a Missal: Initial O with Christ Performing an Exorcism Title Type: Primary Title: Initial O with Christ Performing an Exorcism: Cutting from a Missal Title Type: Former View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1515 Creation End Date: 1525 Creation Date: c. 1520 Object Type: Books Classification Term: Manuscript Materials and Techniques: ink, tempera and liquid gold on vellum Dimensions: Each leaf: 7.7cm x 6.7cm AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1999.135 Credit Line: The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Provenance: (all owners are known from shortly after the sacking of the Sistine Chapel sacristy by Napolean's troops in 1798 to the present):William Young Ottley (1771-1836) [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11-12 May 1838, lot 50 (one of three miniatures)]; Robert S. Holford (1808-1892); Sir George Holford (1860-1926) [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 12 July 1927, lot 27]; G. Wells; A. R. H. Mann [his sale, Sotheby's, London, 11 April 1961, lot 77]; [Areade Gallery]; Philip Hofer; private collection, New York; Roger Wieck; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron] Context: Matteo da Milano (Italian [born Milan], active in Ferrara and Rome)Cutting from a Missal:Initial O: Christ Performing an Exorcism,about 1520Ink, tempera, and liquid gold on vellumThe Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection CMA 1999.135[Cat. no. 81]This initial is probably the "O" beginning the Introit for the Third Sunday in Lent, Occuli mei semper ad Dominum (My eyes are ever towards the Lord). The Gospel reading from that Sunday tells the story of Christ casting out a demon. The artist's style is easily recognized in the facial features, and in the borders, in which he typically mixed still-life motifs, scattered small red and blue flowers, strawberries, and simulated pearls and jewels.Matteo's life dates are not known. His career probably began in Milan in the 1490s, but his name occurs in the accounts of the d'Este family at Ferrara from 1502 to 1512. The climax of Matteo's career was his activity in Rome, where he was apparently responsible for a number of luxury illuminated liturgical manuscripts. In 1520 he illuminated a missal for Cardinal Giulio de' Medici, the future Pope Clement VII (1523-34). The initial shown here comes from another missal that he must have illuminated around the same time. This missal was most probably in the Sistine Chapel sacristy when it was sacked by Napoleon's troops in 1798. AMICA ID: CMA_.1999.135 AMICA Library Year: 2001 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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