Object details
Object number
2.a.2.3.2
Creator(s)
Antonio Maria Vincenti
(active Venice, about 1611 - about 1667)
Title
Ducal Brief
Date
1635
Medium
Ink on vellum
Language
Italian
Publication Place
Venice
Provenance
Collection of the scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 3 July 1903 for $2,500. (as one of ten ducal briefs, with 18 other Venetian manuscripts)
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Gallery
Long Gallery
Case
Dante Case
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