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Master of Philippe de Lévis-Mirepoix
(Servais Coroualle?) (Toulouse, active 1535-1563)
Pentecost (261 x 186 mm.)
France, Mirepoix, 1534-35 |
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From a colossal Antiphonal commissioned by Philippe de Lévis (1466-1537), bishop of Mirepoix, this monumental initial S introduced the Introit for the feast of Pentecost. It was painted by an illuminator who may have traveled to Italy, so deeply imbued is his style with large-scale painting of the High Renaissance. He is christened after his major work, which he painted in France, but he may be identical with Servais Cornoualle, an artist active in Toulouse. Previously unknown, our Pentecost joins a group of eleven other cut-out initials from the same Choir Book, of which the majority are in the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse (MSS Acq. 57.8.1-7) and one is in the Musée du Louvre (inv. RF 52752). |
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