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Girona Master
( fl Bologna, c. 1260–c. 1290). Illuminator, active in Italy. He may be identifiable as the scribe Bernardino da Modena ( fl Bologna, 1268–9). Conti named this illuminator after his work in the Girona Bible or Bible of Charles V (Girona, Bib. Capitolare), which is signed by the scribe MAGISTER BERNARDINUS DE MUTINA/ FECIT: since the inscription and its decoration are entirely in ink, this may refer only to the writing and layout. The Master’s earliest surviving work, executed with the help of one or two assistants, is probably a Psalter (Bologna, Bib. U., MS. 346), containing a calendar of Paduan Use and a Passion cycle with perhaps the first extensive landscape settings in Italian or western European art. The painterly execution, use of the finest blue and violet pigments and the decoration of the richly decorated text provide the closest reflection of Palaiologan art in Italy; the artist seems to have had first-hand knowledge of Byzantine or Armenian court art, and he may have been of Greek origin.
Part of the Masters, anonymous, and monogrammists family
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