Padua will find his historical Bible, a “comic” story in Vulgar soon in the middle of an exhibition – Padua – Arte.it

Padova – Padua returns to welcome his little jewel. The “Paduan -made Bible”, a fans of the fourteenth -century era made by artists who were active at the Carrara court, who were the gentlemen of the city until 1405, returns to the city on the occasion of an exhibition expected in the Salone Dei Bishops of the Diocesan Museum.
From October 17 to April 19, a project will be promoted by the Cassa di Rismarmio di Padova and Rovigo Foundation, published by Alessia Vedova with the scientific cooperation of Federica Toniolo, an original story with visitors.
It is not known whether the original project that came together to tell that the entire Biblical story was ever underway. What is certain is that the company presented itself as Cyclopean and required very large amounts, as well as times, it is appropriate to say it, “Bibles”.
After falling the rule, of the Bible history, traces were lost. Two detached portions landed on the market, probably in the eighteenth era of the eighteenth century. To make sure that it was the powerful Rodigina dei Silvestri family, bibliophiles and art collectors. The second came into the hands of the Duke of Sussex. While the Silvestri bond their entire library, and therefore also their part of the Bible, the Bible reached Sussex at the Accademia Dei Concordi the British library. But from further parts of the miniative manuscript to date there is no trace. Now the two well -known parts of the Paduan -made Bible are finally brought together thanks to the collaboration of the Cariparo Foundation, which has requested and obtained the decisive collaboration of the two institutions that storage.

Londra, British Library

So in the hall of the bishops, the two parts of the Bible can be admired side by side, protected by a maximum security view. She will welcome the beautiful salon of bishops, now included in the Diocesan Museum. It is a non -edge location, because the Bible history shows many stylistic assonants with the baptismal chapel of the cathedral frescoed by Giusto de ‘Menabuoi.
With its equipment of miniatures in perfect dialogue with the development of the Biblical story, the images to give the text that almost seems to be a didactic, the Paduan -made Bible is an authentic jewel. Do you remember a comic? Perhaps yes, when we consider that it is not uncommon to read the delay to “como are dropped off” here, as if it is a story that has been entrusted more to the miniata scenes than to the words. A Bible for images therefore in the tradition of the French illustrated Bibbies of that time.

The Biblical story is written in the Vulgar with Venetian and Paduan bends, a rare example, given that the Bibbies of that time were mainly in the Latin language. If the part of the beaten manuscript that has been stored in Rovigo contains the incipit of the holy text, namely Genesis, in addition to the history of Ruth, the London reports the central part of the Pentateuco (Exodus, Levitic, Numbers, Deuteronomy) and the book of Giosuè. 86 Illustrated Cards are stored in the British library library, embellished with 529 Mini images. The London sheets are recorded by a blue and nineteenth -century gold binding, with a royal coat of arms.

“The illustrations of the Paduan Bible – Understand the curator Alessia Vedova – show that they look at the great pictorial cycles that Giotto, Altichiero, only the ‘Menabuoi had created for the Carraresi and for the powerful religious style, according to a very rich and reasons and a realistic and realistic”. A compelling room will welcome visitors by breathing new life into the historical and artistic environment of Padua of the fourteenth century, but also the cultural climate in which the Bible company is mature. These are the years of Giotto and other great artists who have strongly influenced the miniators who deal with the large company, but also by Francesco Petrarca, protagonist of a cultural environment of the highest on the continent.

Rovigo, Library of the Academy of Concordi from Rovigo, MS212

“The visit to the exhibition – Federica Toniolo, professor at the University of Padua of medieval art history – is an opportunity to appreciate the quality that the miniators reached and reflections in the cartoons, such as in a mirror, use and customs, the Architectural spaces and the rural area of ​​the”.

Also to the Diocesan Museum, directed by Andrea Nante, the visitor will be able to admire works of the Middle Ages in Canova, as well as visits, with a single ticket, with a single ticket, the baptism of the cathedral, in particular in the drum of the cathedral, was the drum of the fat models for the bibels.