ATTANANTI, ATTANANTE degli. – Miniaturist, b.
perhaps in 1452 at Castelfiorentino, d. not later than 1517.
A large number of his works survive, almost all signed.
The earliest of these is the missal of the bishop
of Dol, dated 1483, now in the cathedral of Lyon; fol-
lowing it are the missal for Matthias Corvinus of 1485; the
De nuptiis Mercurii et Philosophiae by Martianus Ca-
pella in the Marciana Library in Venice, which is his most
refined work; the Epistolae of St. Augustine in Vienna (Hofbibl.);
the Breviarium divi Hieronymi in Psalmos David in the
National Library in Paris; and five other codices in the
Estense Library in Modena. Unsigned but certainly his are
the two antiphonaries of the cathedral of Prato from 1505;
the Laurentian gradual in S. Maria degli Angeli from 1505;
two Laurentian antiphonaries in the museum of the Opera del Duomo
in Florence from 1508; the Roman Breviary of Matthias
Corvinus and above all the famous Urbino Bible of
Duke Federico, written in the workshop of Vespasiano da
Bisticci and illuminated in 1476–78, both now in the
Vatican Library.
His style adhered to the Tuscan tradition, closely fol-
lowing Verrocchio and even more so Domenico Ghirlandaio,
whose scenes he also copied, though lacking in dramatic
force and effect. Nevertheless, on account of his qualities as a
colorist and composer, he is regarded among the leading
miniaturists of the Renaissance. – See Pl. XXVIII.