Initial I for a Martyred Saint - Master of the Montepulciano Gradual
Recently, this clipping of a Saint being martyred failed to sell at an auction in Germany. I was able to obtain it in a post-sale offer. As luck would have it, I reached out to Dr. Bryan Keene to ask their opinion of it and to my surprise, Bryan had previously written about the artist while working as an associate curator at the Getty Museum in LA and was even familiar with the leaf in question. A blog post on the Getty's website does a better job of explainig the history of this artist than I can, but for a TL;DR version, the artist has historically been associated with the Master of the Antiphonary of San Giovanni Fuorcivitas but many recent scholars including Keene believe it is by a different hand and have began naming the artist Master of the Montepulciano Gradual. Below is a list of sister clippings taken from the Getty post, followed by images of the different clippings I have managed to track down. One thing I find interesting about the grouping is the distinct bord...