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Andrea Antico presenting his missal to Leo X 1516
Woodcut. Trimmed on all sides; Cassiano type A mount | 18.6 x 16.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 809518
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A woodcut of Pope Leo X: sitting on his throne, he is receiving a missal from a kneeling man. The Pope has his right hand raised in blessing and he is about to hold a musical book. In the right background, a window open to a landscape. This is the title page of Andrea Antico's Liber quindecim missarum (Rome 1516). It has been trimmed to remove the decorative borders and the title of the missal. This print is lettered on the score: "Viua: Leo / Decim' // Pontifex / Max."
The print formed part of an album of portrait prints assembled by Cassiano dal Pozzo in Rome and described in an early nineteenth-century inventory of prints in George III's library as Portraits of Popes and Cardinals. The album was arranged hierarchically from popes to cardinals and thence on to archbishops and bishops, and within each category chronologically (starting from St Peter, according to tradition the first pope). The album was dismantled later in the nineteenth century and the prints that were retained were integrated with others in the collection.
For more information see Mark McDonald, The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I: Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre, 3 vols, Royal Collection Trust 2017, part of The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo: A Catalogue Raisonné, cat. no 1148.Provenance
From the collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-22 October 1657); inherited by his brother, Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (1606-1689); sold by Carlo Antonio's grandson to Clement XI, 1703; acquired by Cardinal Alessandro Albani by 1714, from whom purchased by George III in 1762
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Woodcut. Trimmed on all sides; Cassiano type A mount
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18.6 x 16.0 cm (sheet of paper)
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Leo X
