1) Find GdM original invoice to Wolsey at the PRO
according to Sir Henry Ellis (1846) Original letters illustrative of English history...., 3rd series, vol.1, London, Richard Bentley, p.250 (letter # 96)
the original document's reference is:
STAT. PAP. OFF. WOLSEY'S CORRESP
viii. Pt.i. 22. Orig
2) Is GdM really in the royal accounts in 1519?
Beard in 1929 (p.85) claimed the GdM is mentioned as:
"in charge of certain great water-wheels at Tournay" in 1519
"decorating trappers and saddles at Guines" in 1520
...without giving any references to the source PRO docs.
apart from tacit approval from Remington in 1936 in the Met Museum's Bulletin no-one else more recently has seemed to consider this evidence worth mentioning.
Is this a mistake / fanciful thinking / a lie?
3) Read Bober and Rubenstein's "Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture"
Full ref. is:
Bober and Rubinstein (1986) Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture: A Hanbook of Sources, London, Harvey Miller/Oxford, OUP.
If that doesn't nail down sources, try also Bober's earlier "Drawings after the antique: sketchbooks in the British Museum".
4) Return to the Vyne for another look at "Probus"
But first:
- try and establish once and for all whether the Whitehall busts were glazes
- read the recent Maurice Howard Tudor history of the Vyne in full
5) In Florence
Visit Maiano (1 mile SW of Fiesole)
Locate da Maiano workshop (via Castellacio no longer exists)
See site of San Marco sculpture garden
BdM's work:
- portals in Palazzo Vecchio
- Pietro Mellini bust in Bargello
- Santa Croce pulpit and Mellini floor tomb
- Strozzi chapel (SMN?)
- Giotto bust (Duomo)
If the above leads to significant change of thoughts, re-draft, and also amend items on this list:
> Re-insert the Marcantonio Charles V engraving. Place in the section about the impact of his accession in order to strengthen the argument that this event could have inspired both commissions.
> Consider mentioning the Hans Kraft/Durer Nuremberg medal (as at the V&A, A.380-1910) in the same sentence - illustrates nicely that this impact with pan-European.
