[45] Riccio, C.W., _Cenno Storico dell Accademia Alfonsina_. Naples,
1865.
The Heures d'Aragon referred to above are a rich example of the
Neapolitan Renaissance preserved in the National Library at Paris.
Writers on Italian miniatures are very numerous, and a good deal of
interesting information about Italian MSS. may be found in M. Delisle's
_Cabinet des MSS._, etc.
There is one style of Italian illumination made very popular by the
illuminators of the works of Petrarch, many of which are found in
various libraries. That is the one called the vine-stem style. It
consists of gracefully coiled stems, usually left uncoloured or softly
tinted with yellow, and bearing here and there peculiar ornamental
flowerets, while the grounds are picked out with various colours, on
which are fine white triads of dots or traceries in delicate white or
golden tendrils. A later variety of this style makes the stems of some
pale but bright tint, and the grounds of deep colour. The vine-stem
style seems to have prevailed throughout the whole of Italy just
previous to the classic revival brought about by the Medici in throwing
open their museums of sculptures, coins, and other antiquities, and by
the liberal patronage of the new classic work by Matthias Corvinus, King
of Hungary, and the Dukes of Urbino.
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