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SZÉPE, HELENA KATALIN: Civic and artistic identity in illuminated Venetian documents

49. Mannerist Master: Detached opening leaf to the Commission from Doge Pietro Loredan to Francesco Duodo as Podestà of Bergamo, 1568. San Marino, California, USA, Huntington Library, EL9 H

13, 22 50. Huntington Master: Detached opening leaf of the Commission from Doge Niccolo da Ponte to Francesco Duodo as Capitano of Brescia, 1578. San Marino, California, USA, Huntington Library, EL9 H

13, 10 patrician climb towards higher offices, but achievement is claimed as by the grace, and for the glory, of God and state. In his commissione as capitano of Brescia of 1578 (fig. 50), Duodo's substantial role as commander of galleys in the victory at Lepanto is celebrated, rather than any specific reference to Brescia, as he is shown in armor receiving the victory palm, probably from Saint Justina because it was on her feast day that victory was effected.

30 The accumulation of political 'points' in terms of commissions are enumerated now in the fictive frame, with the arms of prized Padua and Brescia added to those of Udine, Bergamo, and Corfu. Here again the composition, now very much in the style of Veronese, seems to predate a painting in the ducal Palace, the Allegory of the Battle of Lepanto by Veronese, of ca. 1581-1582, in which Doge Sebastiano Venier was honored for his leading role at Lepanto.

31 There are numerous other innovative leaves by this miniaturist, and I will further outline his body of work in another article. It is tempting 30 San Marino, Huntington EL9 H13, 10. Dutschke, op.cit. (note 27) 25. Justina holds a pine cone, not a usual attribute. The rest of the manuscript has been found by Elspeth Yeo in the Edinburgh University Library, MS. La. III.

795/2. The binding is of 19th century stiff vellum (communication of Jean Archibald). 31 Pignatti, T. -Pedrocco, F., Veronese. Catalogo completo, Florence 1991, fig. 158.