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Guindaleri, Pietro
(b Cremona; fl 1464–1506). Italian illuminator. There is no evidence for his activity in Cremona, but like his almost exact contemporary, the Paduan painter Andrea Mantegna, Guindaleri was a lifelong court artist of the Gonzaga at Mantua. In a letter of 30 November 1489 to Francesco II Gonzaga, the artist stated that he had entered the service of the Marquis’s grandfather, Ludovico, 25 years earlier, in 1464. Probably one of the first books that he decorated for the Gonzaga is the copy of Boccaccio’s Il filocolo (Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS. Canon. Italiani 85), the text of which was scheduled to be completed for Marquis Ludovico at the beginning of 1464. Its miniature of Horsemen in a Piazza (fol. 114v) includes foreshortened horses of a type that derives ultimately from the work of Pisanello, Mantegna’s predecessor as court painter to the Gonzaga. Comparisons have also been drawn between the miniatures in the Oxford Boccaccio and the frescoes painted around 1470 in the Palazzo Schifanoia at Ferrara.
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