LA DECORAZIONE MINIATA DELLA CRONACA DELLO PSEUDO DALIMIL E LA PITTURA DI TOMASO DA MODENA: CARLO IV E L’ARTE EMILIANA (original) (raw)

2022, CARLO IV NELL’ITALIA DEL TRECENTO. IL “SAVIO SIGNORE” E LA RIFORMULAZIONE DEL POTERE IMPERIALE

The essay investigates three artworks fundamental to the history and the art both of the Czech Republic, where they are kept today, and of Italy, where they were made. These three masterpieces of Fourteenth Century Art are the illuminations of the latin fragment of the pseudo Dalimil cronichols, and the two paintings that Tomaso Barisini from Modena made for Charles IV and his family. These works are linked to the Bolognese, Emilian, or rather Padana art, to whose artistic culture their various creators belonged. On the basis of a study of the Italian and international bibliography, for the fragment of the chronicle I proposed the identification of one of the illuminators involved and a possible dating of the illuminations. I supported, through historical data, the hypothesis that the chronicle may have been commissioned by Bertrando del Poggetto as a present for John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, the father of Charles. About the two paintings by Tomaso, thank to the analysis of the large international bibliography, I contextualize both in the painter's artistic path. Therefore, I proposed a more solid chronology for their realization, also in relation to Carlo's travels in Italy.