June: mowing hay. Bramantino (Italian, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Benedetto da Milano (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1501-1507 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LombardyVigevano Ownership History: Commissioned by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1436-1518). Italy, Lombardy, Milano, Milan, Castello sforzesco, Civiche raccolte d'arte antica. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower central field, on platform: TONDERE PRATA MESSIBVS / FALCEM ARDIS SVPPONERE / SPE AEOVA LABORI AGRESTIB /
June: mowing hay. Bramantino (Italian, ) (author of design, attr.) [painter] Benedetto da Milano (Italian, act. ) (workshop) [weaver] c. 1501-1507 Tapestry Dimensions: H x W m Tapestry Materials/Techniques: unknown Culture: Italian Weaving Center: , LombardyVigevano Ownership History: Commissioned by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio (1436-1518). Italy, Lombardy, Milano, Milan, Castello sforzesco, Civiche raccolte d'arte antica. Inscriptions: Inscription in lower central field, on platform: TONDERE PRATA MESSIBVS / FALCEM ARDIS SVPPONERE / SPE AEOVA LABORI AGRESTIB / DAT IVNIVS CVRA ANNVA Inscriptions: Inscription in medallion: NETES MAI / IO. IA. TRIVS. MAR. VIGL. FRANCIE MARES [Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Count of Vigevano, Marshall of France] Inscriptions: Inscription in center of upper & lower border: IO IA Figures representing activities of the month, some cutting & gathering hay; displayed along the foreground are loaves of bread, baskets, buckets & bundles, perhaps for the workers' repast; more workers & stacks of hay in R background; central male figure [=personification of June] wearing wreath, seated on platform, holding scepter & pointing towards upper register with corona representing the sun (L), central cartouche with the arms, impresa (a siren breaking a file on a diamond), & motto of the patron, & corona with zodiac sign for Cancer (R) (BRD) hexagonal compartments, linked by rosettes, containing a repeating sequence of 5 coats of arms [patron's in corners & at mid-points] The coats of arms on the border may allude to the 1503 marriage of Gian Giacomo Trivulzio to Paola di Ridolfo Gonzaga. New York (Met), Tapestry in the Renaissance (2002), 123-129, cat. 11 Valsecchi, Arazzi dei mesi (1968) Viale Ferrero, Arazzi italiani (1961), 19, pl. 7, 8 & 9 (det.) Göbel, Wandteppiche II:1 (1928), 408-9 Related Works: Panels in set: GCPA 0242334:0242358
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