Magi Illumination from Michelino da Besozzo

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

January from Limbourg Brothers

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel, egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli. Gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on ammoniacum gum. Cm. 12x12.

Detail copy from Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405-8/9. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Franco-Netherlandish, active in France by 1399–1416). French; Made in Paris. Ink, tempera, and gold leaf on vellum; 9 3/8 x 6 5/8 in. (23.8 x 16.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection.

Buon Natale

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

Illumination on parchment St. Martin of Tours: dividing cloak

Illumination on parchment mounted on a wood panel.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, lapislazuli, water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on pastiglia.

cm. 12x17

Displayed at the exhibition Illuminations at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery.

Copy from Offiziolo Bodmer,MS M.944, fol.080v, prayer book, Milan ca. 1430.Conserved in the Morgan Library.

Illuminator Michelino de'Molinari da Besozzo.

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress 3

The illumination finally finished.

The copy from Girolamo dai Libri is visible during the exhibition "Illuminations" in the Découvert Fine Art Gallery in Rockport.

Below are a few details.

Here and here you can see the working in progress in the previous posts

La miniatura finalmente finita.

La copia da Girolamo dei Libri è visibile durante l'esposizione "Illuminations" alla Galleria Decouvert Fine Art a Rockport.

Qui sotto alcuni dettagli.

Qui e qui potete vedere il working in progress nei precedenti post.

Exhibition at Dècouvert Fine Art

Iluminations is an exhibition of  my copies of illuminated miniatures from the 12th to 15th centuries.

It opens this Saturday 16 November 12 noon and can be viewed through Christmas at the Decouvert Fine Art Gallery,

73 Main Streat Rockport.

the Gallery specializes in American, European and Old Master Drawings, French Medals, object d'art, stained glass, and artist from Provence and Tuscany.

Here the Facebook Page of the Gallery.

Here below some images of the working in progress

Michelino da Besozzo St. Martin

Michelino da Besozzo St. Martin

Limbourg Brothers October

Limbourg Brothers October 

Aberdeen Bestiary the Peridens Tree

Aberdeen Bestiary the Peridens Tree

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress 2

In my previous post I shared the preparatory drawing for this copy with the reconstruction of the lost portion of the letter d and the decoration.

As you can see at this stage is lacking of ligths and darks and some details.

Below the various stages 

In un mio precedente post avevo condiviso il disegno preparatorio per questa copia con la ricostruzione della parte persa della lettera d e di tutta la decorazione esterna. 

Come potete vedere in questa fase mancano luci ombre, e alcuni dettagli.

Qui sotto le varie fasi di lavorazione.

drawing on the parchment mounted on a wood panel

water gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on bole and pastiglia

the gilded part burnished

background colors, egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli.

Copy of illumination from Girolamo dai Libri work in progress

I'm working on a copy of this illumination from Girolamo Dai Libri.

My client ask me to paint the missing part of the letter D, so after comparing all kinds of illuminations from this painter, I arrived at this solution...

Illumination from Saint Albans Psalter

Illumination from a leaf of Saint Albans Psalter, David as a musician.

Egg tempera, pure pigments, genuine lapislazuli and gold leaf 23 3/4 on parchment.

Here the link of the Saint Albans project of the University of Aberdeen

The miniature mounted into the mat ready for shipment. Will be on sale in the Getty Museum Gift Store on the occasion of the exhibition Canterbury and St Albans: Treasures from Church and Cloister

September 20, 2013-February 2, 2014

Design on the parchment

Gilding with gold leaf 23 3/4 on ammoniacum gum

The illumination gilded