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Master of 1328
( fl Bologna, c. 1320–40). Italian illuminator. His name derives from the date on his Matricola dei merciai (Tradesmen’s register; Bologna, Mus. Civ., MS. 633). His work in the choir-books (Antiphonal 11) for the convent of S Domenico, Bologna, is earlier and can be dated to the first half of the 1320s, as can a copy of Gratian’s Decretals (Madrid, Bib. N., MS. Vit. 21–2) and his participation in the Rhetorica ad Erennium (Holkam Hall, Norfolk, Lib. MS. 373), which is of particular interest for its history of the Classical world. The style of the Master of 1328 is close to that of Nerio in its compact areas of colour, divided into what are almost uniform zones; yet in his treatment of narrative and space he was clearly influenced by the later works (after 1317) of Giotto, and he was the first to apply these influences coherently to Bolognese manuscript illumination. The Master of 1328, like the so-called Illustratore Master, reached the height of his career in the 1330s, when he concentrated on legal texts (e.g. Vienna, Österreich. Nbib., Cod. 2040 and 2047 and New York, Pierpont Morgan Lib., MSS M. 821 and M. 716). He worked with Illustratore on a copy of Gratian’s Decretals (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, MS. lat. 1366; for illustration see §I: ILLUSTRATORE above). His last known work is probably the Turin Digest (Turin, Bib. N. U., MS. E. I. 1), which possesses the greatest narrative content of any of his works and dates from c. 1340. The illustration of the Martyrdom of St Catherine (fol. 4) suggests a knowledge of the early works of Vitale da Bologna.
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