BIB_ID
193912
Accession number
MA 4261
Creator
Signorelli, Luca, 1441?-1523.
Display Date
1498 Dec. 16.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr., 1985.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 27.4 x 29 cm
Notes
Address panel with evidence of a seal and addressed to Corrado Salimbene in Florence.
Written when Signorelli was occupied on the frescoes of the life of St. Benedict in the cloister of Mont Oliveto.
Written when Signorelli was occupied on the frescoes of the life of St. Benedict in the cloister of Mont Oliveto.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray; Henry Fatio; purchased on the Fellows Fund as the gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, Jr., 1985.
Summary
Asking one of his Florentine patrons, Salimbeni, to look after one of his sons [Antonio?] who has a chaplaincy and who will earn more money than his father with his brushes; signed "Luca pittore."
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (38 cm)
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