A couple of weeks ago I looked at two early 16th-century Flemish miniatures from the Stroganoff Collection. In a blogpost in 2017 (with a postscript a week later) I identified a cutting from an early 14th-century Italian Antiphonary illuminated by the Master of the Brussels Initials, as being from the collection, and five years later, in 2022 I showed that other cuttings from the same manuscript were also probably once in his collection. I can add one more to the group.
Sunday, 30 November 2025
Saturday, 22 November 2025
The Illuminated Cuttings and Leaves of Victor Goldschmidt (d. 1933), of Heidelberg
The collection of illuminations (not to mention his complete codices, printed graphic arts, etc.) of Victor Goldschmidt [Wikipedia], of Heidelberg (shown above) is not well known. Perhaps the best known item in it was a miniature of St Gregory the Great, from an 11th-century Moralia in Job, which was published by Rosy Schilling, with a Foreword by Georg Swarzenski, Die illuminierten Handschriften und Einzelminiaturen des Mittelalters und Renaissance in Frankfurter Besitz (Joseph Baer, 1929) [PDF here], p. 3 no. 3 and Taf. IV, and is now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
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Saturday, 15 November 2025
Two More Miniatures from the Collection of Count Stroganoff
On several occasions in 2017 (here) and 2020 (here, here, and here) I blogged about illuminations from the collection of Count Stroganoff (shown above). In preparation for a visit to Stockholm next Spring, I have identified two more of his miniatures.
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