# Gradual 1 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 32\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GHERARDUCCI, Don Silvestro dei]() - Date: 1351-1400 - Technique: Tempera and gold on parchment, 580 x 400 mm ## Commentary Gradual 1 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 32\) c. 1395 Tempera and gold on parchment, 580 x 400 mm Victoria and Albert Museum, London According to Vasari, in the Camaldolese monastery of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence there were twenty choir books written by a certain Don Jacopo and illustrated by Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci. He also points out that several other choir books by the same masters were in the library in the monastery of San Michele of the same order in Murano. Single illuminated pages representing a number of scenes from a large gradual by Don Silvestro have survived in various museums. Together with several other stylistically consistent historiated pages and with a considerable number of cut initials scattered in various museums, they formed the major portion of the illuminated decoration of two large graduals for San Michele a Murano. Fifty-one full pages and initials have been discovered so far that can now be firmly associated with the two San Michele a Murano graduals, Gradual 1 \(The First Sunday of Advent to Passion Week\) and Gradual 2 \(Easter to the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost\). The scene in the initial D represents the Nativity of Christ. The depiction is clearly rooted in the Sienese tradition and echoes the invention by the Lorenzetti that must have enjoyed great popularity in Siena. The text of this page is the introit to the Midnight Mass for Christmas. ## Related artworks - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Gradual 1 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 38v\)]() - [Gradual 1 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 46\)]() - [Gradual 1 for San Michele a Murano]() - [Gradual 2 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 44\)]() - [Gradual 2 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 74\)]() - [Gradual 2 for San Michele a Murano \(Folio 78\)]() - [Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli \(Folio 134\)]() - [Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli \(Folio 137\)]() - [Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli \(Folio 142\)]() - [Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli \(Folio 148\)]() - [Gradual from Santa Maria degli Angeli \(Folio 155v\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()