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Aimone Duce

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Aimone Duce (also called Aimo Dux and Dux Aymo; {{fl|1417–1444}}) was an Italian painter active at the court of Savoy-Acaia. He was a native of Pavia, in Lombardy. Although few of Aimone's works survive, and records of his life and art are scant, he is much studied in Piedmont art history. A late gothic painter, his works are considered to be of high quality by Piedmont art scholars, showing the influence of his Lombardian origins and probable training.{{sfn|Gabrieli|2011|p=35, 45}}{{sfn|Bertolotto|2011|p=6}} Aimone was a contemporary of Giacomo Jaquerio and they had the patronage of the lords of Savoy in common.

Works of Aimone are known at three locations. Major fresco cycles are painted in two churches of the Pineroloese: The {{lang|it|Cappella di Missione}} at Villafranca Piemonte and the {{lang|it|Cappella di Santa Maria Assunta}}{{efn|The {{lang|it|Cappella di Santa Maria Assunta}} (the 'chapel of the Assumption of Mary') is often called the "{{lang|it|Santa Maria della Stella}}" or, simply "{{lang|it|Cappella di Stella}}", because it is located in the hamlet of Stella within the {{lang|it|commune}} of Macello The chapel's dedication is to the Assumption, and not to the Marian title "Holy Mary of the Star".{{cite encyclopedia| title = DUX, Aimone |url= https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/aimone-dux_(Dizionario-Biografico)/| first = Elena| last = Rossetti Brezzi| year = 1993| volume = 42| access-date = 14 November 2015| encyclopedia = Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani| language = it}}{{multiref2|1={{cite web |last1=Crosta |first1=Angela |last2=Torinese |first2=G. A. |title=Macello: Cappella di Santa Maria Assunta o della Stella |url=https://archeocarta.org/macello-to-cappella-santa-maria-assunta/ |website=Archeocarta – Carta Archeologica del Piemonte |access-date=27 March 2024 |publisher =Gruppo Archeologico Torinese |language=it-IT |date=19 November 2014 |quote=The chapel is also known as 'Santa Maria della Stella', because it is located in the hamlet of Stella, near the provincial road 159 (Vigone-Pinerolo).}} [Source quotation is machine translated from the original Italian.]|2={{cite web |title=Cappella di Santa Maria della Stella |url=https://www.turismotorino.org/it/esperienze/cultura/spiritualita/i-luoghi-dello-spirito/cappella-di-santa-maria-della-stella |website=Turismo Torino e Provincia |language=it |quote=The chapel of Santa Maria Assunta, commonly known as the Cappella di Stella, from the name of the hamlet of Macello in which it stands, dates back to the beginning of the fifteenth century and consists of a presbytery with a square plan, surmounted by a cross vault and a rectangular nave.{{nbsp}}[...] Among the oldest frescoes are those of Aimone Duce, a painter active in the first half of the 1400s at the court of Savoy-Achaia.}} [Source quotation is machine translated from the original Italian.] }}}} in the hamlet of Stella at Macello. A third, less extensive, fresco is in the church of San Pietro at Pianezza.{{sfn|Bertolotto|2011|p=6}}

Works

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His extant works in the Villafranca Piemonte chapel include a cycle of frescoes. One wall of the sanctuary depicts an allegorical Cavalcade of the Deadly Sins with the theological virtues shown above, the earliest known work on such a theme within the Piedmont.{{sfn|Bertolotto|2011|p=7}} There are a series of saints on both the left and right walls.

The final work attributed to Aimone is a fresco of Saint Sebastian's martyrdom in the parish church of San Pietro at Pianezza, an ex-voto commissioned following an episode of plaque that struck the town in 1428.

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Bibliography

  • Baiocco S., Castronovo S., Pagella E., 2003, Arte in Piemonte - Il Gotico, Ivrea, Priuli & Verlucca Editori
  • Bertolotto, C.; Garavelli, N.; Gabrieli, B. Oderzo. (2011). [https://www.academia.edu/2183527/Tecniche_di_pittura_murale_a_confronto._La_cultura_materiale_di_Dux_Aymo_tra_Lombardia_e_Piemonte "'Magister Dux Aymo pictor de Papie'. Un pittore pavese in Piemonte (notizie 1417–1444)".] Arte Lombarda, no. 163, 2011 (3), pp. 5–45. {{JSTOR|43106494}}. An article in three parts:
  • {{cite journal |first=Claudio |last=Bertolotto |language=it |date=January 2011 |pages= 5–15 |title= L'arte di Dux Aymo alla luce dei recenti ritrovamenti e restauri |trans-title= The art of Dux Aymo in light of recent discoveries and restorations |journal=Arte Lombarda |id=no. 163 |issue=3 |volume=2011 |url= https://www.academia.edu/2183527}}
  • {{cite journal |last1=Gabrieli |first1=Bernardo Oderzo |language=it |pages=29–45 |date=January 2011 |id=no. 163 |issue=3 |volume=2011 |journal=Arte Lombarda |title=Tecniche di pittura murale a confronto. La cultura materiale di Dux Aymo tra Lombardia e Piemonte |trans-title= Mural painting techniques compared. The material culture of Dux Aymo between Lombardy and Piedmont |url=https://www.academia.edu/2183527}}
  • {{cite journal |first= Nicoletta |last=Garavelli |journal=Arte Lombarda |id=no. 163 |issue=3 |volume=2011 |pages=16–29 |date=January 2011 |language=it |title=Villafranca a Ivrea: qualche precisazione sul corpus delle opere, sui collaboratori e sui committenti di Dux Aymo |trans-title=Villafranca in Ivrea: some clarifications on the corpus of Dux Aymo, his collaborators and clients}}
  • Arabella Cifani, Franco Monetti, Carlotta Venegoni, Marco Piccat, con la collaborazione di Augusto Cantamessa, La cappella di Santa Maria di Missione di Villafranca Piemonte. Un capolavoro del gotico internazionale italiano, Torino, Umberto Allemandi ed., 2014
  • Di Macco M., 1979, scheda Dux Aymo, 1429 in Castelnuovo E., Romano G., Giacomo Jaquerio e il gotico internazionale, (catalogo mostra), Palazzo Madama
  • Ferrero F. G., Formica E., 2002, Arte medievale nel Canavese, Ivrea, Priuli & Verlucca Editori
  • {{cite journal|first= Nicoletta |last=Garavelli |date=April 2002 |title=Dux Aymo (1417–1444): Ultime ricerche sui documenti d'archivio |journal=Bollettino della Società Piemontese di archeologia e Belle Arti |volume=Nuova Serie: LII |pages=77–88|language=it}}
  • Ernst Gombrich, Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori, Einaudi Editore, 1997

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Category:15th-century Italian painters

Category:Italian male painters

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