Project: Festival book 1475

[Huck]

virtual Studiolo of Montefeltro ... movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gIyAzEwU7s

[Huck]

virtual Studiolo of Montefeltro ... movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gIyAzEwU7s

The movie presents the pictures in the way, that they covered 3 1/2 upper walls of a quadratic room, the studiolo, this misssing 1/2 upper wall was filled with a window. This naturally led to 8 pictures (2 rows with 4 pictures) for each full wall and 4 for the 1/2 wall (2 rows with two pictures.
Unluckily there is no indication (to my current knowledge), that this was the original way, how the pictures were distributed.
If one assumes, that the 24 pictures at the full walls were arranged in 12 old masters and 12 younger masters, this arrangement might have had a similar idea as the 12 gods and their 12 messengers.

4 pictures would have been special (1/2 wall). So the whole might be rather similar to that, what was used in the wedding manuscript.

According another reconstruction, there was a 29th picture (showing Montefeltro with his son, see below), above a bird (eagle ?).
I don't know, what sort of recreations this are ..... that such different results are both possible.


http://www.slideshare.net/christianomod ... urbino-icp
picture 11 ... you can enlarge the picture




The picture is dated according the apparent age of the son, so ca. 1476. Another dating refers to 1475.

[Huck]

Observations in the both studioli of Montefeltro (Urbino and Gubbio)

... regarding two pictures. The first is a ...

Cut from the marqueterie work below the 28 pictures of famous men,


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In "Chess variants" ...
viewtopic.php?f=11&t=460&start=20
... I wrote

Intarsien (marqueterie) work in the studiolo of Montefeltro in Urbino ...
... the interesting object is the checkered ring with (I tried to count the fields from this picture, hopefully I'm not wrong) with 32x8 fields.

At least modern chess variants know the version how to play "without left and right border" (a figure, which leaves the chess board at the right side, enters the left side). ... ... One can (and should) play this game in 2D-modus, ... ... using the upper ring would need magnetic figures and a cord to hang it somewhere. But the ring might be a visualization of this game idea.
The dimension of the board are astronomic, so it might be rather difficult to play a game till its end.

At the picture the chess ring is placed between 3 other objects, which I can't identify, I still hope to find somewhere a description. Above are other objects with books, the objects indicating astronomical content. Perhaps this is a sign, that the lower objects inclusive the chess ring also somehow relate to astronomical theories.

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The second picture is a ..

Cut from the above shown picture "Montefeltro with son", which is assumed to have been present in the Urbino studiolo at central position


At the picture cut there are 3 interesting objects ...

1. a small ermine figure at the top signifying Montefeltro's membership in a knight order of Aragon called "Order of the ermine", founded 1465 by king Ferrante of Naples
2. A "garter" at the left leg of Montefeltro, indicating Montefeltro's membership in a knight order of England "Order of the Garter", founded in the mid of 14th century
3. a representative upper knot of the sword with some (accidental or intentional) similarity to the chess ring in the above shown picture. I would like to say more it, but ... I'm stillin search for an explanation.


The Ermine - in the studiolo Gubbio (not in Urbino)

Another emblem on the main wall shows an ermine surrounded by a circle of mud with the Italian motto NO[N] MAI ("never") above. The ermine is a well-known symbol of innocence and purity because it was believed it would rather die than soil its immaculate white coat.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/studio ... olo14.html

An ermine appears in the Mantegna Tarocchi at 34 Temperance:




The Garter - in the studiolo Gubbio (not in Urbino)

In the center of the main wall is the Order of the Garter. It is the most prominent personal symbol, one identified with the very presence of the prince, and it was displayed throughout his private apartments and on the door of his studiolo. Federico had been elected a member of the prestigious English Order of the Garter and confirmed by King Edward IV. The insignia of the order, the jeweled garter, was presented to him by the English ambassador in a solemn ceremony held at the abbey of Grottaferrata, near Rome.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/studio ... olo20.html

Further Details of interest in Gubbio:

This crane figure (Montefeltro studiolo Guggio) appears in the Mantegna Tarocchi at 37 Justice

Other emblems allude to Federico's virtues as a military leader. The crane, with a leg held up and a stone in its claw, is a time-honored symbol of watchfulness and an allusion to Federico's celebrated virtue of being "always vigilant and awake."

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/studio ... olo16.html




This Ostrich figure (Montefeltro studiolo Guggio) appeared in older 16th century German playing cards and at the backside of the Tarot card producer "F. in Gorizia" is discussed in the thread "Lombardische Trieste"
search.php?keywords=ostrich&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=all&sr=posts&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search

As did many noblemen of his time, Federico had several personal emblems or devices that alluded to significant events, virtues, or aspirations. Along the center of the main wall an ostrich holds a spearhead in its beak, behind the bird is the German saying: "I can swallow a big iron." The oldest of the emblems used by Federico, it had belonged to his grandfather, on whose tomb it appears—it was evidently meant as a symbol of resistance to adversity.

http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/studio ... olo13.html




Further Overviews:

http://www.slideshare.net/christianomod ... urbino-icp
picture 12, enlargeable
base plan of studiolo




http://www.slideshare.net/christianomod ... urbino-icp
picture 5, enlargeable
base plan of Castle Urbino with position of the studiolo above the entrance



also seen at this picture

1) studiolo 2) loggia 3) dressing chamber 4) duke's bedchamber 5) sala d'udienza 6) sala degli angeli.

http://www.gutenberg-e.org/kirkbride/de ... mbers.html

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I open with this a new thread to Montefeltro, as this might be well a topic of itself.