Per gli inizi della decorazione del Decretum Gratiani: il codice XXV della Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli

Gianluca del Monaco

doi:10.6092/issn.2240-7251/16216

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Gianluca del Monaco Università di Bologna

Gianluca del Monaco is Senior Assistant Professor (fixed term) in the History of Medieval Art (L-ART/01) at the Department of the Arts (DAR) of the University of Bologna since 9 September 2022.

He earned a PhD in the History of Art at the University of Bologna (2012). He was a fellow at the Fondazione Roberto Longhi in Florence (2012–2013) and a research fellow at the Department of the Arts/University of Bologna (2015–2018). He also received a Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art (2018–2019). He mainly taught academic courses in the History of Medieval Art (L-ART/01) and the History of Art Criticism (L-ART/04) at the Universities of Bologna and Udine.

His research interests focus on Romanesque and Gothic painting and book illumination in Bologna and Emilia, alongside a particular consideration for illuminated legal manuscripts in Italy from the twelfth century onwards. He is co-founder of the international research team “IUS ILLUMINATUM” and a member of the “Società Internazionale di Storia della Miniatura”. He presented papers in many international conferences, like the Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, and the Medieval Europe in Motion conference in Lisbon. He is the author of articles and essays in peer-reviewed volumes and journals, including Arte Cristiana, Clio@Themis, Convivium, Paragone, and Rivista di Storia della Miniatura. He published two academic monographs: Simone di Filippo detto “dei Crocifissi”. Pittura e devozione nel secondo Trecento bolognese, Padua, Il Poligrafo, 2018, and L’Illustratore e la miniatura nei manoscritti universitari bolognesi del Trecento, Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2018. Along with Maria Alessandra Bilotta, he is editing a special number of the open access journal Eikón/Imago, devoted to Imago, ius, religio: Religious Images in Illustrated Legal Manuscripts and Printed Books (9th-20th Centuries), to be issued in 2023.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2240-7251/16216

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Bologna, Vercelli, Romanesque Manuscript Illumination, Canon Law, Decretum Gratiani

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The article focuses on codex XXV held at the Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli, a partially illuminated copy of the early manuscript tradition of the Decretum Gratiani, originally titled as Concordia discordantium canonum, which became shortly after its composition in Bologna before the mid-twelfth century one among the main reference textbooks for studying and teaching canon law in theWestern MiddleAges.The codex inVercelli has been at the core of a complicate literature and well exemplifies the issues offered by the early illuminated manuscripts of the Decretum, especially those produced in Italy, particularly with regards to the creation place and the origin of the artists responsible for the illumination.

For the Early Illumination of the Decretum Gratiani: Codex XXV in the Biblioteca Capitolare di Vercelli

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