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Master of the Hamilton Xenophon
( fl Florence, 1470s and 1480s). Italian illuminator and ?painter. He is named after a manuscript illuminated (after 1475) for Ferdinand I of Aragon (Berlin, Kupferstichkab., MS. Hamilton 78.C.24), a Latin translation of Xenophon’s Kyroupaideia. The Master was an artist of some note, whose prestigious patrons included the Medici and Federigo II da Montefeltro, and whose work ranged from the illustration of Books of Hours to humanistic texts. His early style is best represented by some folios of two Antiphonaries (begun in 1463; Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana, MSS Edili 148 and 150), to which Zanobi Strozzi and Francesco di Antonio del Chierico, in whose bottega he worked until 1478, also contributed. Other early collaborative projects include the frontispiece of Jerome’s Commentary on Ezechiel (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Urb. lat. 57, fol. 2r) with Domenico Ghirlandaio and Poggio Bracciolini’s Storia di Firenze (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. Urb. lat. 491) with Francesco Rosselli. Reflections of Ghirlandaio’s work emerge again in the Bible for Federigo da Montefeltro (completed 1478; Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MSS Urb. lat. 1–2), in which he collaborated with del Chierico; the Master’s own unmistakable style has also been recognized in some of its miniatures previously attributed to Attavante Attavanti.
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