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Master of the della Rovere Missals
( fl c. 1475–1505). Illuminator, active in Italy and France. This name was given by Levi d’Ancona (1959) to an artist whose principal work is a richly decorated four-volume Missal produced for Cardinal Domenico della Rovere (d 1501), which includes his portrait, arms and devices (New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., MS. 306; Turin, Archv Stato, MSS J. b. II.2–4). Originally one liturgical whole, it was destined for use in the Sistine Chapel, Rome (Dykmans). In the first volume (New York), the Master collaborated with, or possibly took over the project from, an artist who signed himself Franciscus Betyni and is presumably the Veronese Francesco di Bettini ( fl c. 1481–1539). The della Rovere Master was working in Rome by 1478, as his style is recognizable in a Theophylactus (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Vat. lat. 263) of that year dedicated to Pope Sixtus IV (reg 1471–84). The della Rovere Missals were probably produced in Rome between 1484 and 1490 as they appear to include a portrait of Pope Innocent VIII (reg 1484–92).
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