03 — ARTWORK
Caesar: Commentaries
- MEDIUM
- Manuscript (Ms. 453)
- TYPE
- Other
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
This codex is very refined both in its writing and its decoration. It was copied in Rome by the famous Paduan scribe Bartolomeo Sanvito (1435-c. 1512). He also wrote the beautiful coloured epigraphic capitals in alternating lines of gold, blue, red, green, and purple, which were his speciality and which are used here for headings and incipits, as illustrated here on folio 199. Initials with classicalRelating to the culture of ancient Greece and Rome (classical Antiquity). The classical world played a profoundly important role in the Renaissance, with Italian scholars, writers, and artists seeing their own period as the rebirth (the "renaissance") of classical values after the Middle Ages. The classical world was considered the golden age for the arts, literature, philosophy, and politics. Concepts of the classical, however, changed greatly from one period to the next. Roman literature provided the starting point in the 14th century, scholars patiently finding, editing and translating a wide range of texts. In the 15th century Greek literature, philosophy and art - together with the close study of the remains of Roman buildings and sculptures-expanded the concept of the classical and ensured it remained a vital source of ideas and inspiration. motifs (a fine example can be seen on folio 199) decorate the beginning of each book.
The decoration is attributed to a Paduan artist working in Rome, perhaps identifiable as Gaspare da Padova (active 1466-1517).
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Caesar: Commentaries by GASPARE DA PADOVA},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/gaspare-da-padova-r9a102d9f8213c0/caesar-commentaries-r965a0f6b4d9d88},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
OTHER WORKS BY GASPARE DA PADOVA
- Aristotle: Ethica ad Nicomachum 1470
- C. Suetonii Tranquilli de vita et moribus Caesarum libri duodecim 1479
The archive catalogues no further works by this artist.
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