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"title": "Italian Choral Books of the Renaissance (Manuscript Rotation) - Gallery 115",
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"description": "Alice Tully, New York; [Bruce Ferrini, Akron]",
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"description": "This beautiful initial P introduces the text Puer natus e[st] nobis, et filius datus est nobis (\u201cFor a child is born to us, and a son is given to us\u201d) which marks the opening of the Introit for Christmas Day. The text, taken from Isaiah 9:6, continues, \u201c. . . and his name shall be called Wonderful.\u201d It is used to celebrate one of the most joyous events of the Christian Church\u2014the birth of Christ. This splendid leaf from a manuscript gradual contains the chants used for solemn high Mass on Christmas Day. The initial P features sprays of foliage that emerge and migrate along three sides of the page. Painted by Attavante degli Attavanti, one of the most prominent Florentine illuminators of the late 15th century\u2014whose patrons included Duke Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, and the Medici Pope Leo X\u2014the initial is characteristic of Attavante\u2019s use of a bright, sunny palette. His miniatures often include detailed landscapes with receding vistas and sundrenched hills, townscapes, and ultramarine skies.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. The Jeanne Miles Blackburn Collection of Manuscript Illuminations. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999.",
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"citation": "Alexander, J. J. G. The Painted Book in Renaissance Italy: 1450-1600. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.",
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"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. \u201cInitial Impressions.\" Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 56, no. 2 (March/April 2016): 16-17.",
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