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Apollonio de' BONFRATELLI
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Italy (Rome) 1480/1520 – Italy 1575
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Pietà (recto);
Script and music (verso)
[Manuscript (fragment: Pieta [recto]; Script and music [verso])]
leaf of a Latin missal (Pietà [recto]; Script and music [verso]); five lines in Italian rounded gothic liturgical hand and five lines of music notation on a four-line stave in red ink; from the common preface to the cannon of the Mass c.1545
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| tempera, gold [recto]; ink [verso] | | vellum |
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sheet 25.3 (h) x 17.5 (w) cm
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| not signed, not dated. | | Purchased 1976 |
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NGA 1976.1320AB
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| Provenance |
- probably from the set of books made for Pius IV (1499-1565) and Pius V (1504-1572) for the Sistine Chapel;
- possibly looted after the French invasion of Rome in 1798, then dismembered;
- (possibly with Abate Luigi Celotti (c.1768-c.1846), by whom sold at auction, Celotti sale, Christie's London, 26 May 1825, when possibly bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872));
- Phillipps Collection, no Phillipps no.;
- sold at Phillipps Collection auction, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. London, 30 November 1976, lot 893;
- when bought by the Australian National Gallery, December 1976
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