The Conradin Bible is an illuminated manuscript likely produced in central or southern Italy around 1265. It is usually associated with its namesake, Conradin, king of Sicily (1254–68). It was originally a large codex illustrated with 57 miniatures and numerous historiated and illuminated initials in a High Romanesque style with Byzantine influences. It was cut up and dispersed for centuries, but most of it—164 folios and some fragments—has been reassembled and is now MS W. 152 in the collection of the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore.[1]
In 1966, Roberto Longhi proposed that the illustrator of the Conradin Bible was Oderisi da Gubbio.[2]
References
edit- ^ A. S. G. Edwards (2010). "Conradin Bible". In Michael F. Suarez; H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.). The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ^ S. Maddalo (1997). "Oderisi da Gubbio". Enciclopedia dell'Arte Medievale. Rome: Treccani.
Further reading
edit- Corrie, Rebecca W. (1982). "The Conradin Bible: Since 'Since De Ricci'". The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery. 40: 13–24.
- Corrie, Rebecca W. (1986). The Conradin Bible, MS. 152, the Walters Art Gallery: Manuscript Illumination in a Thirteenth-century Italian Atelier (PhD). Harvard University.
- Corrie, Rebecca W. (1993). "The Antiphonaries of the Conradin Bible Atelier and the History of the Franciscan and Augustinian Liturgies". The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery. 51: 65–88.
- Corrie, Rebecca W. (1994). "The Conradin Bible and the Problem of Court Ateliers in Southern Italy in the Thirteenth Century". Studies in the History of Art. 44: 16–39.
- Corrie, Rebecca W. (2004). "Angevin Ambitions: The Conradin Bible Atelier and a Neapolitan Localization for Chantilly's Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César". In Weiss, Daniel H.; Mahoney, Lisa (eds.). France and the Holy Land: Frankish Culture at the End of the Crusades. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 230–52.
- Corrie, Rebecca W. (2011). "After the Hohenstaufen Fall: Painters of the Conradin Bible between Naples and Rome". Rivista di storia della miniatura. 15: 73–85.
- Fleck, Cathleen A.; Ward, Flora (2004). "More Pieces of the Conradin Bible Puzzle (W.152) Coming Together". The Journal of the Walters Art Museum. 62: 199–202.
- Miner, D. (1966). "The Conradin Bible: A Masterpiece of Italian Illumination". Apollo. 84: 470–75.
- Russo, Antonio (2000). "Su alcune novità per la Bibbia di Corradino". Rivista di storia della miniatura. 5: 51–63.
- Toubert, Hélène (1979). "Autour de la Bible de Conradin: trois nouveaux manuscrits enluminés". Mélanges de l'École française de Rome: Moyen-Âge, Temps modernes. 91 (2): 729–84. doi:10.3406/mefr.1979.2516.