# Petrarch's Virgil \(title page\) [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SIMONE MARTINI]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(Ms. Sp. 10. N. 27\), 295 x 200 mm ## Commentary Petrarch's Virgil \(title page\) c. 1336 Manuscript \(Ms. Sp. 10. N. 27\), 295 x 200 mm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan Thanks to Petrarch's sonnets we know that the poet and the painter became very good friends. Simone must undoubtedly have been influenced by the proto-Humanist cultural world of Petrarch, and we can see clearly how the manuscript illumination of Petrarch's Virgil in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan \(folio 1v\), with its classical and naturalistic overtones \(sophisticated gestures, white cloth drapery, the delicate figures of the shepherd and the peasant\), anticipates the typical style of early 15th-century French manuscript illumination. ## Related artworks - [Altar of St Louis of Toulouse \(detail\)]() - [Altar of St Louis of Toulouse: predella]() - [Altar of St Louis of Toulouse]() - [Altar of St Louis of Toulouse \(without predella\)]() - [Annunciation and Two Saints \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation and Two Saints \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation and Two Saints \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation and Two Saints]() - [Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece \(detail\)]() - [Blessed Agostino Novello Altarpiece \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()