Huck
I redraw the earlier argumentation for "Giovanni di Paolo" as the painter "Giovanni da Gabella in Ferrara 1423" based on this page
http://www.bottegadartetoscana.it/det_opere_eng.asp?codice=5
as I discovered later that "Biccherna 'Gabella' " is a general terminus for small wall-paintings as discribed at this page:
http://www.fabernett.com/cgi-bin/fab455/43673
... especially used in Siena
... so my error
It stays, that we have a very well paid painter "Giovanni da Gabella" active 1423 in Ferrara, who disappears ... either he died or he stayed unrecorded in the future or he changed his name
(is noted at this page)
http://trionfi.com/0/d/13
In Ferrara Giovanni dalla Gabella is noted twice, the other record ...
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja...g=ywO8BQZAmptGi0M4sG3Mv5vYtXo&hl=en#PPA247,M1
Women in Italy, 1350 - 1650" by Mary Rogers and Paolo Tingali
Both commissions, the playing card deck and the 2 chests, are paid with high prizes, so it isn't plausible, that "Giovanni dalla Gabella" had been an otherwise unknown artist.
The mentioned servant Zoexe (in the chests document) plays later a dramatic role in the scandal of Parisina's death ...
http://trionfi.com/0/d/14/
http://trionfi.com/0/d/15/
... also he is the same man, who imported for Parisina the "VIII Imperatori cards from Florence".
http://trionfi.com/0/p/06/
http://www.bottegadartetoscana.it/det_opere_eng.asp?codice=5
as I discovered later that "Biccherna 'Gabella' " is a general terminus for small wall-paintings as discribed at this page:
http://www.fabernett.com/cgi-bin/fab455/43673
... especially used in Siena
... so my error
It stays, that we have a very well paid painter "Giovanni da Gabella" active 1423 in Ferrara, who disappears ... either he died or he stayed unrecorded in the future or he changed his name
(is noted at this page)
http://trionfi.com/0/d/13
In Ferrara Giovanni dalla Gabella is noted twice, the other record ...
A wedding gift for a maid of honour
(Parisina Malatesta, wife of Niccolò d'Este, asks the court administrators to pay for a gift of cassoni for one of her "maids-of-honour. Original source: A. Francesschini, Artisti a Ferrara in età umanistica e rinascimentale: testimonianze archivistiche. Parte I dal 1431 al 1471 (Ferrara 1993), p. 119)
January 1423
"We want you, our factors, to give and to pay Master Giovanni della Gabella, painter, 25 ducats in coins for his expenses and labour for two painted and gilded chests, which Pellegrina, our maid of honour and daughter of Zoexe, is having [as donora] for her wedding."
http://books.google.com/books?id=Ja...g=ywO8BQZAmptGi0M4sG3Mv5vYtXo&hl=en#PPA247,M1
Women in Italy, 1350 - 1650" by Mary Rogers and Paolo Tingali
Both commissions, the playing card deck and the 2 chests, are paid with high prizes, so it isn't plausible, that "Giovanni dalla Gabella" had been an otherwise unknown artist.
The mentioned servant Zoexe (in the chests document) plays later a dramatic role in the scandal of Parisina's death ...
http://trionfi.com/0/d/14/
http://trionfi.com/0/d/15/
... also he is the same man, who imported for Parisina the "VIII Imperatori cards from Florence".
http://trionfi.com/0/p/06/