MINIATURIST, Italian
(active mid-11th century in Arezzo)

Passionary

around 1050
Manuscript (II. I. 412)
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence

This manuscript, which survived only in a dismembered and rearranged form, contains an account of the lives of the martyrs. It belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of Saints Flora and Lucilla in Arezzo. Some pages are decorated with illustrations of one or more saints. The human figure is shown either full or half-length, either beside the text or within the initial.

The initial "D" on folio 24v contains the half-length figure of Saint Fructuosus.