Artibus et Historiae no. 21 (XI)
1990, ISSN 0391-9064Up
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MARCIN FABIAŃSKI - Federigo da Montefeltro's Studiolo in Gubbio Reconsidered. Its Decoration and Its Iconographic Program: An Interpretation
There are no serious technical, historical, and formal arguments against the possibility that five pictures ascribed to Joos van Gent were commissioned for the Gubbio studiolo of Duke Federigo da Montefeltro. The probable arrangement of its decoration is reconstructed here, and the cultural background, which determined the choice of the iconographical program, is discussed. The decoration, based on the Neoplatonic concepts of Ficino and Landino, appears to represent an encomium of the owner as having pursued a successful path to wisdom through action and through contemplation. Some formal peculiarities of the paintings are thus accounted for.
