{"id":120,"date":"2021-12-03T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T14:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/claire.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2021-12-07T22:12:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T22:12:18","slug":"niccolo-di-ser-sozzo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/niccolo-di-ser-sozzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/timeline\/\">back to timeline<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"894\" src=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo-di-ser-Sozzo-Tegliacci-Illumination-Excised-from-a-Choir-Book-Two-Female-Saints-1924.430-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art.jpg\" alt=\"Small illumination depicting two seated female saints, one in turquoise with a cream cloak, and one in dark blue with a light blue cloak, both with jeweled strips at the throat and sleeves. The image has a border decorated with a simple geometric pattern, and the background is blue.\" data-id=\"213\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo-di-ser-Sozzo-Tegliacci-Illumination-Excised-from-a-Choir-Book-Two-Female-Saints-1924.430-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/?attachment_id=213\" class=\"wp-image-213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo-di-ser-Sozzo-Tegliacci-Illumination-Excised-from-a-Choir-Book-Two-Female-Saints-1924.430-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art.jpg 800w, https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo-di-ser-Sozzo-Tegliacci-Illumination-Excised-from-a-Choir-Book-Two-Female-Saints-1924.430-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo-di-ser-Sozzo-Tegliacci-Illumination-Excised-from-a-Choir-Book-Two-Female-Saints-1924.430-Cleveland-Museum-of-Art-768x858.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"> Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo, Illumination Excised from a Choir Book: Two Female Saints, 1327. Cleveland Museum of Art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo was a prolific 14th century Italian painter and illuminator of the Sienese school. Where Niccol\u00f2&#8217;s altarpieces followed the conventional styles of the time, his illuminations were often more inventive and original. Among the manuscripts to which he contributed are Beinecke 1112, a Cistercian breviary made for the monks of San Galgano, and a page included in the <em>Caleffo dell&#8217;Assunta<\/em>, a register of Sienese public documents transcribed in 1334-6. This latter is his only signed work, and depicts the Assumption of the Virgin. From the sources containing his miniatures, we can infer that Niccol\u00f2 worked for a wide range of patrons, both lay and religious, and for different houses, both Cistercian and, as in the case of Barnard 1, Franciscan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"715\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena-715x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Image shows an elaborate full-page illumination showing the assumption of the virgin. Mary is surrounded by a crowd of angels, the ones in front playing musical instruments, and the border of the image contains small painted figures in the corners. There is a second, more elaborate border decorated with flowers and small figures, and three crests painted at the bottom.\" data-id=\"218\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/?attachment_id=218\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena-715x1024.jpg 715w, https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena-768x1100.jpg 768w, https:\/\/liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu\/barnard1provenance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Niccolo_di_ser_Sozzo._Virgin_of_Assumption.1336-38_Archivo_di_stato_Siena.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\"> Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo, Assumption of the Virgin, 1336. <em>Caleffo dell&#8217;Assunta<\/em>, Archivio di Stato, Palazzo Piccolomini, Siena.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo Niccol\u00f2 di ser Sozzo was a prolific 14th century Italian painter and illuminator of the Sienese school. 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