MINIATURIST, Italian
(active around 1461 in Lombardy)

Raffaele Vimercati: Liber iudiciorum

c. 1461
Manuscript (Ms. 1329)
Biblioteca Trivulziana, Milan

This manuscript contains the horoscope that the author, Raffaele Vimercati, made for Galeazzo Maria Sforza, the future Duke of Milan. There is only one miniature in the manuscript, on folio 1 which precedes the work. In the miniature, the kneeling author is offering the text to a figure who is thought to represent Francesco Sforza, the father of Galeazzo Maria who was only sixteen years old in 1461 when the manuscript was completed.

The illumination was executed in the workshop of the so-called Ippolita Master.