Cristoforo Orimina was an Italian illuminator of the 14th century. He was a painter at the court of

Robert of Naples Robert of Anjou ( it, Roberto d'Angiò), known as Robert the Wise ( it, Roberto il Saggio; 1276 – 20 January 1343), was King of Naples, titular King of Jerusalem and Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1309 to 1343, the central figure of Ita ...

and of

Joan I of Naples Joanna I, also known as Johanna I ( it, Giovanna I; December 1325 – 27 July 1382), was Queen of Naples, and Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1343 to 1382; she was also Princess of Achaea from 1373 to 1381. Joanna was the eldest dau ...

. The Orimini were a patrician family of

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, belonging to the noble '' seggio'' of Capuana. The family's residence was in what is now the Via dei Cimbri. Cristoforo identified himself on the last leaf of an illuminated manuscript Bible.Samantha Kelly, ''The New Solomon: Robert of Naples (1309-1343) and Fourteenth-Century Kingship'' (Leiden, 2003), p. 32. Stylistic comparison allows numerous other manuscript illuminations to be attributed to Cristoforo's hand or workshop. One of the best known of these works is the

Hamilton Bible The ''Hamilton Bible'' (Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett 78 E 3) is a fourteenth-century illuminated manuscript Bible, commissioned by the Angevin court in Naples and illustrated by the workshop of Cristoforo Orimina around 1350. It was part of the ...

, now in Berlin.

References

Sources

*C. De Clercq, "Le miniaturiste napolitain Cristoforo Orimina", ''Gutenberg Jahrbuch'', 1968, pp. 52–65.

External links

Psalter of Cristoforo OriminaMissale Romanum from the Workshop of Cristoforo OriminaShort biography and bibliography, by the Vatican Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Orimina, Cristoforo Painters from Naples Manuscript illuminators Trecento painters 14th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Year of death unknown Year of birth unknown Court of Joanna I of Naples