MINIATURIST, Italian
(active 1160s in Pisa)

Gospel Book

1160s
Manuscript (Acq. E Doni 91)
Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence

This manuscript, written in the 1160s in Pisa, contains illuminations executed in a style typical of the school of Reichenau at the beginning of the 11th century. The possible explanation is that the miniaturist (Italian or perhaps German) had seen a Reichenau school prototype which he used as a model.

The Gospels are interspersed with full-page initials, portraits of the Evangelists and a painting of the Ascension.

The Ascension is depicted on folio 96.