[LIGHTING] Two historiated initials (bust... - Lot 4 - Ader

[LIGHTING] Two historiated initials (bust of a soldier; bust of a man) and two illuminated figures in the intercolumn (two crowned figures) Fragment from a law book (collection of councils?) Tempera, gouache, inks and burnished gold on parchment. Italy, Bologna, first quarter of the fourteenth century Attributable to the Master of 1328, "Second (or Fourth) Master of San Domenico " Dimensions: fragment (H. 90 x L. 51 mm); initials (H. 17 x L. 22 mm) This fragment of a leaf offers two historiated initials on a gold background: one with a figure of a soldier in armour, the other with a figure of a man . The intercolonization is illustrated of a crowned man, wearing a blue tunic and mantle enhanced with gold tri-lobed motifs, standing on the back of a huddled figure, also crowned (prince's crown?) and wearing a brown/burgundy tunic enhanced with the same gold tri-lobed motifs and a green mantle. Bologna was an important centre for the production of legal manuscripts, with the famous "Studio" or university that made the reputation of the city, and the painters were in contact with influences from several nations that flowed into the Bolognese city. The faces of the figures with their eyes marked by large, very black pupils, as well as the figure crowned and curled up on himself in his brown/burgundy tunic are typical characteristics of the style of the Master of 1328, which can be found in another manuscript with the decoration attributed to this miniaturist named "Fourth Master of Saint Dominic" by Venturino Alce in: La Basilica di San Domenico in Bologna, 1961 (Justinien, Digestum, Paris, BnF, Latin 14341, fol. 15v). The golden trilobes that the royal figures wear on their vestments also echo those seen in the figure of the reclining king on f. 283 of the aforementioned Digestum or on the cloth hanging behind the throning Madonna in the manuscript of the Matricola dei merciai (1328) (Bologn