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Miracle of Mount Gargano; Historiated "S" with Saint Michael

Miracle of Mount Gargano; Historiated "S" with Saint Michael, late 15th century

  • Jaume Huguet, Spanish, ca. 1415 - before 1492

Ink, pigment and gold leaf on parchment

  • Sheet (irregular): 18 1/4 × 13 inches (46.4 × 33 cm) Image: 8 1/8 × 4 3/8 inches (20.6 × 11.1 cm) Image (initial): 6 1/2 × 2 5/8 inches (16.5 × 6.7 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Jackson

29.36

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Details

(Durlacher Bros., New York, New York, USA)

February 1929, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 10, 7 (1929): pp. 97-98. DeRicci, S. and Wilson, W.J. Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 1937, vol. 2, p. 1134. Exhibition of French Gothic Art. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1928, cat. no. 20. Medieval and Renaissance Music Manuscripts. Exh. cat., Toledo Museum of Art. Toledo, 1953, cat. no. 85. Toscano, G. "Nápoles y el Mediterráneo: Relaciones entre miniatura y pintura en la transición de la casa de Anjou a la casa de Aragón," in El Renacimiento Mediterráneo. Exh. cat., Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and Museu de Belles Arts de València. Madrid and Valencia, 2001, p. 91, repro. p. 90 (fig. IV-21) (as Circle of Jaume Huguet, unknown location).

circle of Jaume Huguet, Miracle of Mount Gargano; Historiated "S" with Saint Michael, late 15th century, ink, pigment and gold leaf on parchment. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe B. Jackson, 29.36.

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