# Panegyric in honour of King Robert of Anjou [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1301-1350 - Technique: Manuscript \(Banco Rari 38\) ## Commentary The codex contains an anonymous verse poem written c. 1320 by Convenole da Prato \(c. 1270-1338\), a teacher and poet from Prato, Petrarch's master. The poem eulogizes King Robert of Anjou \(1278-1343\). Of the 36 leaves in the codex, 30 contain miniatures, some including single figures and other showing groups. The decoration is considered to have been executed by artists of a Florentine workshop whose style is close to Taddeo Gaddi. The miniature on folio 10v, representing Robert of Anjou sitting on a throne and holding the globe, has a monumental character reminiscent of panel and fresco painting. The blue ground is enriched with gold-leaf fleur-de-lis, a symbol found in the arms of the House of Anjou. Scholars have suggested that this manuscript was given to Robert of Anjou by the magistrates of Prato. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()