Niccolò Di Ser Sozzo
Estimate: 40.000 - 60.000 USD
Price realised: 125.000 USD
Price realised: 125.000 USD
Description
A splendid example of the engaging delicacy and vibrancy of the work of Niccolò di Ser Sozzo, one of the leading Sienese panel painters and miniaturists of the 14th century. His most celebrated documented work, inscribed “Nicholaus, Ser Sozzi de Senis”, is an elaborate Assumption of the Virgin on a Sienese land and property registration book known as the Codex Caleffo (c. 1334), now in the Archivio di Stato in Siena. The present miniature, with the Virgin in her patterned white robes height
Examples of Niccolò’s work can be found in museums and institutions worldwide: the Archivio di Stato in Siena also holds an antiphonal with four illuminations by the artist; The Museo di Arte Sacra in San Gimignano preserves a choirbook (Graduale LXVIII) with a number of historiated initials attributed to Niccolò, and the Cini Foundation in Venice has a fine cutting with the Annunciation. Miniatures and cuttings by Niccolò can also be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan M
Examples of Niccolò’s work can be found in museums and institutions worldwide: the Archivio di Stato in Siena also holds an antiphonal with four illuminations by the artist; The Museo di Arte Sacra in San Gimignano preserves a choirbook (Graduale LXVIII) with a number of historiated initials attributed to Niccolò, and the Cini Foundation in Venice has a fine cutting with the Annunciation. Miniatures and cuttings by Niccolò can also be found in the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Metropolitan M
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