As previously mentioned, Lady Maddalena is a friend of mine, who happened to have two backlogs. For her Christmas present, she wanted me to do her backlogs. Her persona is late period Italian, so I selected the Sforza Hours for her Gold Dolphin, and this one is her Grant of Arms. For this one, I selected the Rangoni Bentivoglio Book of Hours created by Francesco Marmitta (Italian, born ca. 1460) (Artist) and Antonio Pietro Sallando (Scribe) roughly around 1505 in Bologna, Italy. While the original would have been done on parchment or vellum, with period pipgments, I used pergamenta for my substrate and modern gouache for my pigments. The borders are 23k leaf gold laid with an acrylic gesso, the shell gold is finetec. The finished product fits in an 8x10" frame with a 1" border while the original was 6 1/2 x 4 5/8". The hand is an Italian Humanist taken from the exemplar. Tilted to show trhe gold work on the bottom better. In progress and some close-ups below.
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