# Silius Italicus: De bello punico [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [STROZZI, Zanobi]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Lat. XII. 68\) ## Commentary Silius Italicus: De bello punico c. 1450 Manuscript \(Lat. XII. 68\) Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice This manuscript important manuscript was dismembered in the 18th century. The only important leaf that remains in the codex is folio 3, which is attributed to Zanobi Strozzi. It is the frontispiece to the text, decorated with a sumptuous border of white vine scrolling, framing warriors, putti and animals set within a continuous series of medallions. In the initial a crowned condottiere is set against a landscape of hills and cypresses. Of the leaves that were removed, one was recovered and reunited with the manuscript. Its illustration is the work of Pesellino, it shows Mars on a two-wheeled chariot. Pesellino is thought to have executed the other miniatures that are now lost. ## Related artworks - [Book of Hours for the Use of Rome]() - [Book of Hours for the Use of Rome]() - [Book of Hours for the Use of Rome]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Gradual]() - [Madonna and Child with Angels]() - [Madonna of Humility with Two Musician Angels]() - [Psalter]() - [St Jerome Altarpiece]() - [Sts Cosmas and Damian Saved from Drowning]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()