#workshop of the zavattari

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Workshop of Zavattari Holy martyrs

Oil on panel, 61.4 x 39.3 cm, ca. 1460-65

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:Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (MRMSS)

*Call Number:B1 363 D

*Location:Microform Collection (MICROPR)

*Call Number:MSM0630

*Record ID:158525

*Accession Number:MS M.630.1-35 MS M.630 MS M.630A (box)

*Name:Pierpont Morgan Library. Manuscript. M.630.1-35.

*Title:Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards.

Created:Milan, Italy, ca. 1450-1480

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Description:35 cards : heavy cardboard, illuminated ; 173 x 87 mm

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Credit:Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1911.

Genres:Illuminated manuscripts--Italy--Milan--15th century. Cardboard. Cuir bouilli--France--14th century. Emblems (symbols)--Italy--Milan--15th century. Devices (symbols)--Italy--Milan--15th century. Playing cards--Italy--Milan--15th century.

Language:Latin captions on card 9; French inscription on cards 28, 29, and 34: A BON DROYT.

Notes:Tarot cards; 33 illuminated in Milan, Italy, ca. 1450, and 3 replacement cards (M.630.5 - Temperance; M.630.8 - Fortitude; and M.630.13 - The Sun) illuminated ca. 1480. Decoration: 8 court cards and 15 trump cards with figural representations, 12 decorated pip (numerical) cards. Artist: The original cards have been attributed to Francesco Zavattari, while more agree with the attribution to Bonifacio Bembo. The replacement cards have traditionally been attributed to the Cremonese artist Antonio Cicognara, an attribution questioned by Dummett (1980), who suggests instead an artist from Ferrara or (Dummett 2007) Benedetto Bembo (brother of Bonifacio) and proposes that they were not replacements but part of the original set as designed by the Bembo workshop. Bauer-Eberhardt (1997) advances Franco dei Russi (or de' Russi) as the artist of these later cards, attribution accepted by the exhibition catalogue Tarots enluminés (2021). A complete pack of tarot cards consists of seventy-eight cards; the thirty-five cards in the Pierpont Morgan Library, twenty-six in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, and thirteen owned by the Colleoni family of Bergamo form one of the most complete sets of 15th cent. painted tarot cards of Italian origin. Previously stored in late 14th-century French cuir bouilli casket, said to be from the Pères de la Merci de Toulouse, with arms on an escutcheon: an angel confronting a shield bearing a cross; casket decorated with scenes of chivalry: a lady showing her heart to a knight, and a knight accepting the heart and giving the lady a ring; the casket was purchased by J.P. Morgan (1867-1943) on 7 November 1919 from Léon Gruel, Paris.

Variant Title:Colleoni-Baglioni tarrocchi deck fragment

Provenance:Executed by or for a member of the Visconti-Sforza family (emblems and devices of both families found intermingled on the cards, i.e., the Sforza three interlinked diamond rings, the Visconti ducal crown of Milan with palm and laurel), probably Francesco Sforza (d. 1466), most likely after his triumphal entry as Duke of Milan 25 March 1450; the patrician family Bon from Venice?, as suggested by heraldic elements in certain cards (parti de gueles et d'argent) and a haloed lion holding a book on the shield of the King of Swords (M.630.22); Count Alessandro Colleoni of Bergamo (d. 1900); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through Hamburger Frères, 

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Workshop of the Zavattari - Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael. Detail. 1440 - 1480

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Theodolinda's Chapel

Monza's Cathedral.

At the end of the XIV century, during the last phase of the reconstruction work of the church, at the sides of the high altar were built two twin chapels, action promoted by the Visconti who had tried to credit the church as the seat of the imperial coronation due to the presence of the Iron Crown.

The left chapel is dedicated to the history of Theodolinda, founder of the church, while the right twin chapel is dedicated to the Virgin.

The cycle of frescoes, one of the most extraordinary examples of the Italian Late-Gothic culture, of profane nature, was made in the Zavattari's Workshop between 1444-1445.

The History of Theodolinda is distributed on 45 scenes.

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The Life of Christ, a triptych attributed to Franceschino Zavattari (Italian, Milan, active 1414–53) and workshop. Tempera on wood, gold ground. Central panel,  with frame: 61.3 x 42.5 cm; each wing: 59.4 x 21 cm

It is curious that the right wing shows events from the life of Christ leading up to the Flight into Egypt while the left shows events following it. There is, however, no technical reason for believing that the two wings have been reversed.

In style the picture is related to the work of the Late Gothic Veronese painter Giovanni Badile. 

The spaces below the center panel were originally filled with small relics. 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Workshop of the Zavattari - Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael. 1440 - 1480

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Workshop of the Zavattari - Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael. Detail. 1440 - 1480

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Workshop of the Zavattari - Saint John the Baptist and Saint Michael. Detail. 1440 - 1480

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Tarot Card: Wheel of Fortune 

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (MRMSS) *Call Number:B1 363 C MS M.0630 *Location:Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (MRMSS) *Call Number:B1 363 D

*Title:Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards. Created:Milan, Italy, ca. 1450-1480 Related Records:Click here for related items

Genres:Illuminated manuscripts--Italy--Milan--15th century. Cardboard. Cuir bouilli--France--14th century. Emblems (symbols)--Italy--Milan--15th century. Devices (symbols)--Italy--Milan--15th century. Playing cards--Italy--Milan--15th century. Language:Latin captions on card 9; French inscription on cards 28, 29, and 34: A BON DROYT. Notes:Tarot cards; 33 illuminated in Milan, Italy, ca. 1450, and 3 replacement cards (M.630.5 - Temperance; M.630.8 - Fortitude; and M.630.13 - The Sun) illuminated ca. 1480. Decoration: 8 court cards and 15 trump cards with figural representations, 12 decorated pip (numerical) cards.

Tarot Card: Wheel of Fortune -- Woman (personification of fortune), winged, blindfolded, is at center of wheel, at top of which is man, with ass's ears, seated, with scepter in right hand. Below, flanking the wheel are two male figures, one upright, also with ass's ears, and the other upside down, with tail. Below the wheel is bearded man on hands and knees. Scrolls accompany each figure. Man at top of wheel has scroll with inscription REGNO; man at left has scroll inscribed REGNABO; man at right has scroll with inscription REGNAVI; and man at bottom has scroll inscribed SUM SINE REGNO.

Artist: The original cards have been attributed to Francesco Zavattari, while more agree with the attribution to Bonifacio Bembo. The replacement cards have traditionally been attributed to the Cremonese artist Antonio Cicognara, an attribution questioned by Dummett (1980), who suggests instead an artist from Ferrara or (Dummett 2007) Benedetto Bembo (brother of Bonifacio) and proposes that they were not replacements but part of the original set as designed by the Bembo workshop. Bauer-Eberhardt (1997) advances Franco dei Russi (or de' Russi) as the artist of these later cards, attribution accepted by the exhibition catalogue Tarots enluminés (2021).

A complete pack of tarot cards consists of seventy-eight cards; the thirty-five cards in the Pierpont Morgan Library, twenty-six in the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, and thirteen owned by the Colleoni family of Bergamo form one of the most complete sets of 15th cent. painted tarot cards of Italian origin.

Executed by or for a member of the Visconti-Sforza family (emblems and devices of both families found intermingled on the cards, i.e., the Sforza three interlinked diamond rings, the Visconti ducal crown of Milan with palm and laurel), probably Francesco Sforza (d. 1466), most likely after his triumphal entry as Duke of Milan 25 March 1450; the patrician family Bon from Venice?, as suggested by heraldic elements in certain cards (parti de gueles et d'argent) and a haloed lion holding a book on the shield of the King of Swords (M.630.22); Count Alessandro Colleoni of Bergamo (d. 1900); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) through Hamburger Frères, Paris, in 1911; by descent to J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).