# Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PACINO DI BONAGUIDA]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Tempera and gold on parchment, 420 x 299 mm ## Commentary Dispersed today among a number of collections are nearly two dozen leaves and cuttings from a single laudario, or book of hymns to be sung in Italian by the members of a lay confraternity. This illustrated hymnal was one of the most ambitious and lavish manuscripts created in Florence in the first half of the fourteenth century. All but five of the surviving illuminations from the laudario were painted by Pacino di Bonaguida, the most prolific manuscript painter in Florence in that period. The remaining leaves are by the Master of the Dominican Effigies. The large rectangular miniature depicts St Agnes Enthroned and Scenes from Her legend. Three additional figurative scenes appear in oculi along the lower margin of the leaf. The leaf belonged to the hymn for St Agnes whose feast is celebrated on January 21. ## Related artworks - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Laudario of the Compagnia di Sant'Agnese]() - [Left wing of a diptych]() - [Miracle of the Tomb of St Proculus]() - [Right wing of a diptych]() - [The Morgan Codex \(Folio 22\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()