# Alessandro Cortesi: Poem [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript \(Cod. 85. I.1. Aug. 2\) ## Commentary Alessandro Cortesi: Poem 1485-90 Manuscript \(Cod. 85. I.1. Aug. 2\) Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel This manuscript of a poem by Alessandro Cortesi \(died 1490\) was prepared for the royal book collector Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary \(1443-1490\). The picture shows folio 3r, which is painted in a trompe l'oeil design, as if an old piece of manuscript was nailed to a classical monument. ## Related artworks - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()