Anonymous masters
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In the history of art
and architecture, an anonymous master is an architect, Old Master
painter, or printmaker whose work is known, but whose name is not.
and who painted (among other paintings) that of the Life of St Francis there.
, to whom Bernard Berenson
attributed a number of works which were later re-attributed to Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino, a Florence copyist. Some painters have even been described as anonymous (even many times like Barthélemy Eyck) before later being recognised. They thus held several names historically (those who are noted on the page devoted to them), although doubts continue surrounding some, such as Giovanni Gaddi (after 1333 - 1383) maybe the Master of the Misericordia dell’Accademia.
History of art
The History of art refers to visual art which may be defined as any activity or product made by humans in a visual form for aesthetical or communicative purposes, expressing ideas, emotions or, in general, a worldview...
and architecture, an anonymous master is an architect, Old Master
Old Master
"Old Master" is a term for a European painter of skill who worked before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print made by an artist in the same period...
painter, or printmaker whose work is known, but whose name is not.
Pre-Renaissance
Since the early 20th century, an anonymous master in this period is someone known not by their name but by the name the subject and/or commissioner of their best-known work. For example, the Master of the Bardi St Francis is the painter commissioned by the Bardi family to paint their chapel at Santa CroceSanta Croce
Santa Croce is one of the six sestieri of Venice, northern Italy.-Geography:It occupies the north west part of the main islands, and can be divided into two areas: the eastern area being largely mediaeval, and the western - including the main port and the Tronchetto - mostly lying on land reclaimed...
and who painted (among other paintings) that of the Life of St Francis there.
Renaissance
Only in the Renaissance did individual artists in Western Europe acquire a personality known by his or her peer (listed by Vasari in his Lives of the Artists), such as those known by :- Their true name or their father's name :
- Filippino LippiFilippino LippiFilippino Lippi was an Italian painter working during the High Renaissance in Florence, Italy.-Biography:...
after his father Fra Filippo Lippi
- Filippino Lippi
- A chosen pseudonymPseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
, possibly linked to his birthplace or his father's trade :- Giuliano da SangalloGiuliano da SangalloGiuliano da Sangallo was an Italian sculptor, architect and military engineer active during the Italian Renaissance.He was born in Florence. His father Francesco Giamberti was a woodworker and architect, much employed by Cosimo de Medici, and his brother Antonio da Sangallo the Elder and nephew...
worked on the gate of saint Gall - Antonio PollaiuoloAntonio PollaiuoloAntonio del Pollaiolo , also known as Antonio di Jacopo Pollaiuolo or Antonio Pollaiolo, was an Italian painter, sculptor, engraver and goldsmith during the Renaissance.-Biography:...
, after his father, a chicken farmer (pollo in Italian) - Jacopo del Sellaio, after his father, a saddler (sellier)
- The Della RobbiaDella RobbiaDella Robbia may refer to:*Luca della Robbia , Italian sculptor*Andrea della Robbia , Italian sculptor, nephew of Luca*Giovanni della Robbia , son of Andrea*Girolamo della Robbia , son of Andrea...
s (after the Tuscan word robbia, dyers' madderMadderRubia is a genus of the madder family Rubiaceae, which contains about 60 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and sub-shrubs native to the Old World, Africa, temperate Asia and America...
, and his father, the dyer Luca della RobbiaLuca della RobbiaLuca della Robbia was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terra-cotta roundels.Luca Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama...
) - Masuccio SegondoMasuccio SegondoMasuccio Segondo was an Italian architect of the 14th century period, active in Naples.He was born to Pietro degli Stefani, but was the godson to Masuccio Primo, hence his name. He traveled to Rome for some years. King Robert of Naples commissioned the church of Santa Chiara, but Masuccio remained...
, student of Masuccio PrimoMasuccio PrimoMasuccio Primo was an Italian architect and sculptor of the 13th century, active in Naples. He was the godfather of the son of Pietro degli Stefani, known as Masuccio Segondo .-References:... - etc.
- Giuliano da Sangallo
- A surname attributed to him :
- Il CronacaSimone del PollaioloSimone del Pollaiolo is a well known Florentine architect who was commonly known as Il Cronaca .Pollaiolo was born in Florence, he had two famous brothers Antonio and Piero Benci who had the nickname Pollaiuolo or Pollaiolo .Simone was later given his nickname Il Cronaca...
, who never stopped talking about the ruins he had seen in Rome - Daniele da VolterraDaniele da VolterraDaniele Ricciarelli , better known as Daniele da Volterra, was an Italian mannerist painter and sculptor.He is best remembered for his association, for better or worse, with the late Michelangelo. Several of Daniele's most important works were based on designs made for that purpose by Michelangelo...
, nicknamed Il Barghettone (the butcher) for having censored nudes in paintings by adding cloths or branches, at the request of pope Paul IVPope Paul IVPope Paul IV, C.R. , né Giovanni Pietro Carafa, was Pope from 23 May 1555 until his death.-Early life:Giovanni Pietro Carafa was born in Capriglia Irpina, near Avellino, into a prominent noble family of Naples... - Luca della RobbiaLuca della RobbiaLuca della Robbia was an Italian sculptor from Florence, noted for his terra-cotta roundels.Luca Della Robbia developed a pottery glaze that made his creations more durable in the outdoors and thus suitable for use on the exterior of buildings. His work is noted for its charm rather than the drama...
, for the madder colour he used as a ceramicist - MasaccioMasaccioMasaccio , born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense...
, known as the idiot - etc.
- Il Cronaca
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, whose generic name is given to works made by all its members :- the Campionesi Masters, sculptors and builders of religious buildings (Ugo da Campione, Bonino da CampioneBonino da CampioneBonino da Campione was an Italian sculptor in the Gothic style, active between 1350 and 1390.His name indicates that he was born in - or into a family originating in - Campione d'Italia, a Lombardy town in an enclave within Switzerland...
, Giovanni da Campione, Zenone de Campione, Matteo da Campione)
- the Campionesi Masters, sculptors and builders of religious buildings (Ugo da Campione, Bonino da Campione
20th century problems of attribution
The idea of a named and recognised painter originated among art historians early in the 20th century, who were attributing works they recognised to known painters. They later went back on some of these attributions, re-naming as anonymous the painters they had formerly named. One example is the case of Pier Francesco FiorentinoPier Francesco Fiorentino
Pier Francesco Fiorentino , was a 15th century Florentine painter.-See also:*Anonymous masters...
, to whom Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson
Bernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".-Personal life:...
attributed a number of works which were later re-attributed to Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino, a Florence copyist. Some painters have even been described as anonymous (even many times like Barthélemy Eyck) before later being recognised. They thus held several names historically (those who are noted on the page devoted to them), although doubts continue surrounding some, such as Giovanni Gaddi (after 1333 - 1383) maybe the Master of the Misericordia dell’Accademia.
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- Master of 1302Master of 1302The so-called Master of 1302 was an Italian painter active in Emilia in the first half of the 14th century. His works were basically Gothic in style, with modernized touches; his name comes from a set of votive frescos painted for bishop Gerardo de' Bianchi, who died in 1302; among these is a...
- Master of 1310Master of 1310The Master of 1310 was an Italian painter active in Pistoia at the end of the 13th into the beginning of the fourteenth century.His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting the Madonna and Child with Angels and the Commandant Filippo Paci, today held in the Grand Palais in Avignon and dated to...
- Master of 1328Master of 1328The Master of 1328 was an Italian illuminator active in the area around Bologna from about 1320 until 1340. His name is derived from the date on a trademan's register, the Matricola dei merciai, now in the Civic Museum in Bologna; his hand may also be discerned in a set of choir books which were...
- Master of 1342Master of 1342The Master of 1342 was a French painter active around Roussillon in the first half of the 14th century. His name is derived from an altarpiece with the Virgin, dated to 1342 and kept in the church of Serdinya. His style is heavily Gothic, with linear designs that appear to have been taken from...
- Master of 1419Master of 1419The Master of 1419 was an Italian painter active in the region around Florence in the first half of the 15th century.The unknown painter's work bears a good deal of resemblance to that of Lorenzo Monaco; his name is derived from the central panel of a now-dismantled triptych, depicting the Madonna...
recognised as Battista di Biagio Sanguigni, having painted and dated in 1419 the central panel for a triptych executed for Santa Maria a Latera, broken up and dispersed - Master of 1499Master of 1499The Master of 1499, sometimes called the Bruges Master of 1499, was a Flemish painter active at the end of the fifteenth century, known from four paintings, all closely related to earlier works by others, and one dated "1499"....
- Master of the 1540sMaster of the 1540sThe Master of the 1540s was a South Netherlandish painter active between 1541 and 1551. About thirty portraits dating to that decade have been ascribed to him; the identity of one of the sitters, Gillis van Shoonbeke , indicates that the artist wasactive in that city...
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- Master of the Rebel AngelsMaster of the Rebel AngelsThe Master of the Rebel Angels is an anonymous master of the Sienese School, during the second quarter of the 14th century .He is only known by two panels of an ancient polyptych painted between 1340 and 1345. They can be seen at the Musée du Louvre.His name is derived from one of these panels...
, Maestro degli Angeli Ribelli of Siena, 2 paintings, musée du Louvre http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_98=AUTR&VALUE_98=MAITRE%20DES%20ANGES%20REBELLES&DOM=All&REL_SPECIFIC=1 - Master of the Vienna Adoration
- Master of AlkmaarMaster of AlkmaarThe Master of Alkmaar was a Dutch painter active around Alkmaar at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name is derived from a series of panel paintings from the church of Saint Lawrence in that city, dated to 1504 and showing the Seven Works of Mercy; they are currently in the Rijksmuseum...
- Master of AmbrassMaster of AmbrassThe Master of Ambrass was a Bohemian painter active probably in Prague at the end of the fourteenth century. He was the creator of the Wiener Musterbuch, a set of silverpoint studies and subjects all dated to the same period, which were used as models in painters' studios...
- Master of Amiens
- Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio MaggioreMaster of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio MaggioreThe Master of the Antiphonal Q of San Giorgio Maggiore was an Italian painter of illuminated manuscripts active in the northern region, especially around Venice and possibly around Verona, between 1440 and 1470. His name is derived from a choir book decorated for the Benedictine monks of San...
- Master of Antoine de Bourgogne
- Master of ArguisMaster of ArguisThe Master of Arguis was an Aragonese artist active in the first half of the 15th century. Stylistically, his work is related to that of Juan de Levi and Bonanat Zaortiga, and is derived from the tradition of the International Gothic in Aragon...
- Master of Ávila
- Master of the Altarpiece of the Ten CommandmentsMaster of the Altarpiece of the Ten CommandmentsThe Master of the Altarpiece of the Ten Commandments was a German painter active in the region of Göttingen at the beginning of the fifteenth century. His name is derived from a portable altarpiece, depicting the Ten Commandments, which is believed to have at one time stood in the chapel of the...
- Master of the Aquisgrana Altarpiece
- Master of the re Alberto Altarpiece
- Master of the Aix Annunciation, born at Liège, active in France
- Master of the Annunciation to the Shepherds
- Master of Astorga
- Master of the Assisi ChoirbooksMaster of the Assisi ChoirbooksThe Master of the Assisi Choirbooks was an Italian manuscript illuminator active during the last quarter of the thirteenth century. Umbrian or Roman in origin, he is associated with work done for the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi; he seems to have known Cimabue's work for that church, and his...
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- Master of Badia a IsolaMaster of Badia a IsolaThe Master of Badia a Isola was an Italian painter. His name is taken from a depiction of the Madonna and Child that hangs in the Badia dei Santi Salvatore e Cirino in Abbadia a Isola; a number of other paintings by his hand are also believed to exist....
- Master of the Bamberg AltarMaster of the Bamberg AltarThe Master of the Bamberg Altar was a German painter active in the Nuremberg area. His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting scenes from the Passion, painted in 1429 for the Franciscan church in Bamberg; this may be seen today in the Bavarian National Museum in Munich...
- Master of the santa Barbara Altarpiece
- Master of the san Bartolomeo Altarpiece
- Becerril Master
- Bedford MasterBedford MasterThe Bedford Master was an manuscript illuminator active in Paris during the fifteenth century. He is named for the work he did on two books illustrated for John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford between 1415 and 1435. One is the Bedford Hours, a Book of Hours, in the British Library; the other, a...
- Master of the Beighem AltarpieceMaster of the Beighem AltarpieceThe Master of the Beighem Altarpiece is a little-known Flemish painter who was active in Brussels during the first third of the sixteenth century. His art is basically Gothic, with classical influences; his name comes from a series of paintings known to have come from Brussels, now held in the...
- Master of the Berswordt AltarMaster of the Berswordt AltarThe Master of the Berswordt Altar was a German painter, active in the area around Dortmund during the 14th and 15th centuries. A number of works around Westphalia, including one in Bielefeld, are attributed to him....
- Bigallo Master
- Master of the Blue CrucifixesMaster of the Blue CrucifixesThe Master of the Blue Crucifixes was an Italian artist active either in the region of Umbria or Emilia during the second third of the thirteenth century. He is associated with the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, and may have been an assistant of Giunta Pisano, whose work his paintings resemble...
- Brunswick MonogrammistBrunswick MonogrammistThe Brunswick Monogrammist was an anonymous Netherlandish painter, active in the mid-to-late 16th century. He painted religious scenes but also several scenes of secular merriment, including brothel and tavern scenes...
- Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of PisaByzantine Master of the Crucifix of PisaThe so-called Byzantine Master of the Crucifix of Pisa was an anonymous Italian painter active in Pisa in the first half of the thirteenth century. His most important painting is a Crucifixion painted on wood panel, dating to sometime around 1230 and currently in the Museo nazionale di San Matteo...
- Master of the Bützow AltarpieceMaster of the Bützow AltarpieceThe Master of the Bützow Altarpiece was a German painter, active in the area around Lübeck around 1500. He is named for an altarpiece painted for the church of Bützow, still held in the ambulatory of the church....
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- City of Ladies Master and his studio of illuminators of The Book of the City of LadiesThe Book of the City of Ladiesthumb|400px|right|Picture from The Book of the City of LadiesThe Book of the City of Ladies , or Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, is perhaps Christine de Pizan's most famous literary work, and it is her second work of lengthy prose. Pizan uses the vernacular French language to compose the book, but...
by Christine de Pisan - Master of CabestanyMaster of CabestanyThe Master of Cabestany is the name given to an anonymous sculptor active in the second half of the 12th century. He was identified in the 1930s after the discovery of several pieces remarkable for their workmanship and their style; chief among these was the tympanum of the church in Cabestany,...
- Master of the Cappella di San Nicola
- Master of the Cappella Medici PolyptychMaster of the Cappella Medici PolyptychThe Master of the Cappella Medici Polyptych was an Italian painter active between about 1315 and 1335....
- Master of the Cassone degli Adimari probably Lo Scheggia, brother of MasaccioMasaccioMasaccio , born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance. According to Vasari, Masaccio was the best painter of his generation because of his skill at recreating lifelike figures and movements as well as a convincing sense...
- Master of the Cassoni Campana, builder of cassoneCassoneAmong furniture in Italy, a cassone or marriage chest is a rich and showy type of chest, which may be inlaid or carved, prepared with gesso ground then painted and gilded. The cassone was one of the trophy furnishings of rich merchants and aristocrats in Italian culture, from the Late Middle Ages...
- Master of the Chiostro degli Aranci, recognised as being Giovanni Consalvo, fresco painter at the monastery at Badia FiorentinaBadia FiorentinaThe Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence, Italy. Dante supposedly grew up across the street in what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt in 1910 as a museum to Dante...
- Master of Crea
- Campionesi Masters
- Master of CastelsardoMaster of CastelsardoThe Master of Castelsardo was an Italian painter active in Sardinia at the end of the 15th and the beginning of the sixteenth century. His name comes from a painting of the Madonna and Child currently in the cathedral of Castelsardo....
- Master of Castelseprio, fresco painter at Santa Maria Foris Portas at CastelseprioCastelseprioCastelseprio was the site of a Roman fort in antiquity, and a significant Lombard town in the early Middle Ages, before being destroyed and abandoned in 1287. It is today preserved as an archaeological park in the modern comune of Castelseprio, near the modern village of the same name...
, in the province of VareseProvince of VareseThe Province of Varese is a province in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Varese but its largest city is Busto Arsizio....
. - Master of the Castello della Manta
- Master of colours, Jehan BellegambeJehan BellegambeJehan Bellegambe or Jean Bellegambe was a French painter of religious paintings, triptychs and polyptychs, the most important of which are now held at Douai, Arras, Aix, Lille, Saint Petersburg and Chicago. He was known as the 'master of colours' for the transparency and interplay of his colours...
- Chief Associate of the Bedford MasterChief Associate of the Bedford MasterThe Chief Associate of the Bedford Master was a French manuscript illuminator believed to have been active between about 1430 and about 1465. He is named for his association with the Bedford Master, in whose workshop he seems to have served; scholars consider him to be the most talented of the...
- Master of the Grigg Crucifixion
- Master of the Franciscan Crucifixions (13th c)
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- Master of the Darup AltarpieceMaster of the Darup AltarpieceThe Master of the Darup Altarpiece, sometimes called the Master of Darup, was an anonymous German painter active in Westphalia around 1430...
- Masters of Dirc van DelfMasters of Dirc van DelfThe Masters of Dirc van Delf were a group of manuscript painters active in the Netherlands between 1400 and around 1410. The name has been appended to several unknown artists who together make up an important studio of illuminators, one of the first important ones known from fifteenth-century Holland...
- Master of the Death of the Virgin (engraver)Master of the Death of the Virgin (engraver)The Master of the Death of the Virgin was an engraver most likely active in southern Germany. Approximately ten prints have been ascribed to him, including a Death of the Virgin for which he was named. He was formerly believed to be from the southern Netherlands, but is now thought to have lived...
- Master of the Death of the Virgin (painter)Master of the Death of the Virgin (painter)The Master of the Death of the Virgin was a Netherlandish painter active between 1507 and 1537. He is believed to be responsible for a large group of paintings; two of these are altarpieces of the Death of the Virgin, one in Cologne and one in Munich, from which his name is derived. He is...
- Master of the Terni Dormition
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- Master of the Embroidered FoliageMaster of the Embroidered FoliageMaster of the Embroidered Foliage was a Netherlandish painter or a group of painters who worked out of Bruges and Brussels...
- Master E. S.Master E. S.Master E. S. , is an unidentified German engraver, goldsmith, and printmaker of the late Gothic period. He was the first major German artist of old master prints and was greatly copied and imitated. The name assigned to him by art historians, Master E. S., is derived from the monogram, E...
- Expressionist Master of Santa ChiaraExpressionist Master of Santa ChiaraThe Expressionist Master of Santa Chiara was an Umbrian artist active between about 1290 and around 1330. He has been identified as one of Giotto's principal followers; some contend that his hand may be identified in a series of frescos attributed to Giotto in the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi...
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- Master of the Female Half-LengthsMaster of the Female Half-LengthsThe Master of the Female Half-Lengths was a Netherlandish painter, perhaps a group, working in the area of Antwerp in the first half of the sixteenth century. He, or they, appears to have trained in Joachim Patinir's workshop in that city...
- Master of FlémalleRobert CampinRobert Campin , now usually identified as the artist known as the Master of Flémalle, is usually considered the first great master of Early Netherlandish painting...
(c 1378-1445), painter of the comté de Hainaut. - Master of the Francoforte Garden of Paradise
- Master of FrankfurtMaster of FrankfurtThe Master of Frankfurt was a Flemish Renaissance painter active in Antwerp between about 1480 and 1520. Although he probably never visited Frankfurt am Main, his name derives from two paintings commissioned from patrons in that city, the Holy Kinship in the Frankfurt Historical Museum and a...
- Master of the Fresco of the Twelve Moons, north Italy, painter of a secular fresco of the late 14th century (1391-1407) at Trente, in a room of the Tower of Eagles of the Castello del Buonconsiglio.
- Master of the Friedberg AltarpieceMaster of the Friedberg AltarpieceThe Master of the Friedberg Altarpiece was an otherwise unknown German painter, active at the end of the fourteenth century. He is named for an altarpiece painted for the church of Saint Mary in Friedberg, Hesse, currently in a museum collection in Darmstadt....
- Master of the Fröndenberger AltarpieceMaster of the Fröndenberger AltarpieceThe Master of the Fröndenberger Altarpiece was a German painter active at the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the 15th whose name is not known. Between 1410 and 1420 he painted an altarpiece depicting the Virgin Mary for a monastery at Fröndenberger....
- Master of the FuriesMaster of the furiesMaster of the Furies is the provisional name of an ivory sculptor working in the early 17th century. The name is derived from his characteristic work, showing shouting furies, in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. All his works are without any signature. The earliest record of his works are found...
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- Master of the Gardens of LoveMaster of the Gardens of LoveThe Master of the Gardens of Love was a Netherlandish engraver. One of the earliest practitioners of copper engraving, his name is derived from a pair of depictions of Gardens of Love. He may have worked in the northern Netherlands, around The Hague...
- Master of the Gardner Annunciation
- Master of the Gerona MartyrologyMaster of the Gerona MartyrologyThe Master of the Gerona Martyrology was a Bohemian painter active at the end of the fourteenth century. His output is fairly poorly known; some historians have conflated him with either the Master of Ambrass or the Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece...
- Master of the san Giorgio Altarpiece
- Master of the Golden AltarMaster of the Golden AltarThe Master of the Golden Altar was a German painter, active in the area around Lüneburg during the fifteenth century. His name is derived from an altarpiece dating most likely to 1418, formerly in St. Michael's church in that town but now held by a museum in Hanover....
- Master of the Graudenz AltarpieceMaster of the Graudenz AltarpieceThe Master of the Graudenz Altarpiece was a Bohemian artist active at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. His name is derived from an altarpiece which formerly hung in the castle of the Teutonic Knights in Graudenz, and which may now be seen in National Museum in Warsaw...
- Master of the Gubbio CrossMaster of the Gubbio CrossThe Master of the Gubbio Cross is the name given to an Umbrian painter active between about 1285 and about 1320. He appears to have been familiar with the artists working at the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, and some of his work bears a resemblance to that of Giunta...
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- Master of HeiligenkreuzMaster of HeiligenkreuzThe Master of Heiligenkreuz was an Austrian painter active at the beginning of the 15th century; a tentative lifespan of 1395 to 1430 has been put forth but this appears highly conjectural. His name is taken from a diptych that once belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz, located in...
- Master of the Heisterbach AltarpieceMaster of the Heisterbach AltarpieceThe Master of the Heisterbach Altarpiece was a German painter, active around Cologne between 1440 and 1460. His work shows traces of the influence of Stefan Lochner. His name is derived from an altarpiece in the monastery of Heisterbach....
- Master of Hohenfurth, an alternate name for the Master of Vyšší Brod
- Master of the HousebookMaster of the HousebookMaster of the Housebook and Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet are two names used for an engraver and painter working in South Germany in the last quarter of the 15th century. He is apparently the first artist to use drypoint, a form of engraving, for all of his prints...
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- Master I. A. M. of ZwolleMaster I. A. M. of ZwolleMaster I. A. M. of Zwolle was an anonymous Dutch goldsmith and engraver who signed many of his works with his initials I. A. M. or I. A., and added "Zwolle" to some. His work is characterized by crowded and active scenes of people, graded tones and crisp strokes...
- IllustratoreIllustratoreThe Illustratore was an Italian illuminator active between 1330 and 1347. Almost nothing is known about him. Due to similarities between the two, his output was first designated as separate from that of Niccolò da Bologna; indeed, Erbach von Fürstenau at first called him the Pseudo-Niccolò, so...
- Master of the Imhoff AltarMaster of the Imhoff AltarThe Master of the Imhoff Altar was a German painter. His name comes from an altarpiece, dating to between 1418 and 1422, commissioned by Konrad Imhoff for the Lorenzkirche in Nuremberg. Only the central panel, depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, and the wings, depicting several apostles, are...
- Isaac MasterIsaac Master (painter)The Isaac Master was an Italian Gothic painter active in the decoration of the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi in Assisi at the end of the thirteenth century. His name is derived from a fresco painting of the death of Isaac for which he is known...
- Master of the Iserlohn AltarpieceMaster of the Iserlohn AltarpieceThe Master of the Iserlohn Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Westphalia during the first third of the fifteenth century. His work shows traces of the influence of Robert Campin. His name is derived from an altarpiece in St. Mary's Church in Iserlohn....
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- Master of the Saint Lambrecht Votive AltarpieceMaster of the Saint Lambrecht Votive AltarpieceThe Master of the Saint Lambrecht Votive Altarpiece was an Austrian painter active between about 1410 and 1440. His name is derived from a panel, formerly in St. Lambrecht's Abbey in the village of Sankt Lambrecht in Styria. This, now in the Alte Galerie in Graz, depicts a former abbot of the...
- Master of the Legend of the MagdalenMaster of the Legend of the MagdalenThe Master of the Legend of the Magdalen was a German painter, active from about 1483 to around 1527. His name is derived from a large, now-dispersed altarpiece, which has been dated to between 1515 and 1520 based on the costumes of the donor figures...
- Master of the (Bruges) legend of St. Ursula, Flemish, 15th c
- Master of the Legend of Saint LucyMaster of the Legend of Saint Lucyright|thumb|240px|Lamentation with Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria , a [[triptych]] in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts collection. The wing panels show Saint John the Baptist and Saint Catherine of Alexandria, while the centre panel illustrates mourning on the death of...
- Master of the Legend of the Holy Mother
- Master of the Libro di casa
- Master of the Lippborg PassionMaster of the Lippborg PassionThe Master of the Lippborg Passion was a Westphalian artist active in the late Gothic style between the years 1470 and 1480. His name is taken from an altarpiece depicting the Passion that once stood in the church of Lippborg, and is now kept in the Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural...
- Master of the Litoměřice AltarpieceMaster of the Litomerice AltarpieceThe Master of the Litoměřice Altarpiece was a Bohemian painter active from the end of the 15th century to the beginning of the 16th. Active in the International Gothic style, he was one of the first practitioners of Renaissance art north of the Alps, and had a heavy influence on the future of the...
- Master of the Llangattock EpiphanyMaster of the Llangattock EpiphanyThe Master of the Llangattock Epiphany was a Flemish manuscript painter active between 1450 and 1460. He is one of at least eight artists who contributed to a Book of Hours, the Llangattock Hours, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum collection. His name is derived from this book, whose title in turn...
- Master of the Llangattock HoursMaster of the Llangattock HoursThe Master of the Llangattock Hours was a Flemish manuscript painter active between 1450 and 1460. He is one of at least eight artists who contributed to a Book of Hours, the Llangattock Hours, now in the J...
- Master of the Lübeck BibleMaster of the Lübeck BibleMaster of the Lübeck Bible was a Flemish manuscript illuminator and printmaker. He is named for a series of woodcuts designed for a Bible printed at Lübeck, Germany in 1494. He has long been known as a contributor to several early printed books; only recently, however, has their style been...
- Master of the Ludlow Annunciation
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- Master of the Malchin AltarMaster of the Malchin AltarThe Master of the Malchin Altar was a northern German Late Gothic painter who was active in Hamburg in the first half of the 15th century....
- Master of Magione
- Master of the Marble MadonnasMaster of the Marble MadonnasThe Master of the Marble Madonnas was the name given to an unidentified sculptor, or perhaps group of sculptors, active in the Tuscan region of Italy between c. 1470 and c.1500. He is thought to have been responsible for a group of stylistically related sculptures that is based mainly on their...
- Master of MeßkirchMaster of MeßkirchThe Master of Meßkirch was an anonymous German Renaissance painter.-Biography:...
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- Master of the Louvre Nativity, probably Fra DiamanteFra DiamanteFra Diamante was an Italian Renaissance painter.-Biography:Born at Prato, he was a Carmelite friar, a member of the Florentine community of that order, and was the friend and assistant of Filippo Lippi...
(according to Bernard BerensonBernard BerensonBernard Berenson was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. He was a major figure in pioneering art attribution and therefore establishing the market for paintings by the "Old Masters".-Personal life:...
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- Master of NördlingenMaster of NördlingenThe Master of Nördlingen was a German woodcarver active in Nördlingen in the 1460s. His name comes from a group of wooden sculptures carved for the high altar of the Georgskirche in Nördlingen; these depict the Crucifixion, with figures of the Virgin, John the Apostle, two grieving angels, Saint...
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- Master of the Osservanza, Sienna school, 15th century
- Oltremontano Master
- Master of the Ortenberg AltarpieceMaster of the Ortenberg AltarpieceThe Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Mainz during the first third of the fifteenth century. His work shows traces of the influence of Robert Campin. His name is derived from an altarpiece painted between 1410 and 1420 for the church of Ortenberg; this may...
- Master of Otto van Moerdrecht ( active c. 1420–30). Netherlandish illuminator
- Master of Ozieri
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- Master of the Pallant AltarpieceMaster of the Pallant AltarpieceThe Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Cologne around 1430. His work shows traces of the influence of Stefan Lochner. His name is derived from an altarpiece, dated 1425, donated by Werner II of Pallant to the parish church of Linnich....
- Master of Panzano
- Master of the ParementMaster of the ParementThe Master of the Parement of Narbonne, often referred to more briefly as the Master of the Parement or Parement Master is the name given to an artist of uncertain identity who flourished in France in the late 14th century and early 15th century. He belongs to the period of medieval painting...
- Master of the Perkins Saint PaulMaster of the Perkins Saint PaulThe Master of the Perkins Saint Paul was an Italian artist active during the third quarter of the fourteenth century. His origins are uncertain; he is believed to have been Tuscan, and has tentatively been linked by some historians with the city of Lucca. He appears to have been familiar with the...
- Master of the Playing CardsMaster of the Playing CardsThe Master of the Playing Cards was the first major master in the history of printmaking. He was a German engraver, and probably also a painter, active in southwestern Germany from the 1430s to the 1450s, who has been called "the first personality in the history of engraving." Various attempts...
- Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500The Master of the Prayer Books of around 1500 was a Flemish painter of illuminated manuscripts active in Bruges from about 1485 until around 1520. His name is derived from a collection of devotional manuscripts from the same artist dating to about the start of the 16th century...
- Master of the Darmstädter Passion
- Master of the Pallant AltarpieceMaster of the Pallant AltarpieceThe Master of the Ortenberg Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Cologne around 1430. His work shows traces of the influence of Stefan Lochner. His name is derived from an altarpiece, dated 1425, donated by Werner II of Pallant to the parish church of Linnich....
- Master of the Pähl Altarpiece
- Master of the predella
- Master of the Nicolas Puchner Altarpiece
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- Master of the Rajhrad AltarpieceMaster of the Rajhrad AltarpieceThe Master of the Rajhrad Altarpiece was a Bohemian painter active in the region around Olomouc and Brno before 1420. Likely of Moravian extraction, he derives his name from an altarpiece that once hung in the church of Saint Maurice in Olomouc; since disassembled, some of its panels are now in...
- Master of the Regular Canons' AltarpieceMaster of the Regular Canons' AltarpieceThe Master of the Regular Canons' Altarpiece was a German painter, active in the area around Erfurt during the fifteenth century. He is named for an altarpiece painted for the church of the regular canons in Erfurt, dated to between 1450 and 1460; in addition one of his works is held by the...
- Maestro di Re Renato
- Master of the Rohan HoursRohan HoursThe Grandes Heures de Rohan is an illuminated manuscript book of hours, painted by the anonymous artist, the Rohan Master, between 1430 and 1435, in the Gothic style...
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- Master of the Bardi Saint Francis
- Master of the Saint Augustine AltarpieceMaster of the Saint Augustine AltarpieceThe Master of the Saint Augustine Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Nuremberg during the second half of the 15th century. His work indicates familiarity with the work of both Martin Schöngauer and the Master of the Housebook....
- Master of the Saint Bartholomew AltarpieceMaster of the Saint Bartholomew AltarpieceThe Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Germany between 1475/1480 and 1510...
- Master of Saint Cecilia
- Master of Saint Giles
- Master of San Martino alla PalmaMaster of San Martino alla PalmaThe Master of San Martino alla Palma was a Florentine painter active during the first third of the fourteenth century. An immediate follower of Bernardo Daddi, he is named for an altarpiece in the parish church of San Martino alla Palma...
- Master of San Severino
- Master of Signa
- Master of the Sterbini DiptychMaster of the Sterbini DiptychThe Master of the Sterbini Diptych was an Italian painter active most likely in Venice during the early fourteenth century; other locations along the Adriatic coast have also been suggested. Several panels associated with this artist are believed to exist; his name is derived from a painting now...
- Master of the Schotten AltarpieceMaster of the Schotten AltarpieceThe Master of the Schotten Altarpiece was a German painter, active in Nuremberg during the 14th and 15th centuries. His name is derived from an altarpiece dated to about 1390, which once stood in the church of St. Mary in Schotten. The altarpiece was dismantled in 1828....
- Master of the Schöppingen AltarpieceMaster of the Schöppingen AltarpieceThe Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece was a German artist active in the area around Münster between 1445 and 1470. It appears likely that he studied in the Netherlands, and was influenced by the work of Robert Campin and Rogier van der Weyden. His name is derived from an altarpiece, dated to...
- Master of the Staufen AltarpieceMaster of the Staufen AltarpieceThe Master of the Staufen Altarpiece was a German painter, active during the fifteenth century. His work indicates familiarity with the work of the painter of the Paradiesgärtlein; his name comes from an altarpiece of 1420 which is in the presbytery of the church in Staufen....
- Master of the Stauffenberg AltarpieceMaster of the Stauffenberg AltarpieceThe Master of the Stauffenberg Altarpiece is a 15th century Anonymous Master from or around Alsace, stylistically influenced by Rogier van der Weyden.His name derives from a triptych kept in the Unterlinden Museum, Colmar, since its creation...
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- Master of the Tavole Barberini
- Master of the Třeboň AltarpieceMaster of the Trebon AltarpieceThe Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, sometimes called the Master of Wittingau, was a Bohemian painter active in Prague around 1380-1390. His name is derived from an altarpiece from the church of Saint Eligius at the Augustinian convent of Třeboň...
- Master of Trognano
- Master of the Tucher AltarpieceMaster of the Tucher AltarpieceThe Master of the Tucher Altarpiece was a German painter active in Nuremberg. His name is derived from a painting which has been in that city's Frauenkirche since the early 19th century; this has been known as the Tucher Altarpiece at least since 1615, in which year it was moved from its initial...
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- Upper Rhenish MasterUpper Rhenish MasterThe denomination Upper Rhenish Master refers to an artist active ca. 1410-20 possibly in Strasbourg. The most famous painting of the artist is Paradiesgärtlein , a mixed technique on oakwood, 26.3 x 33.4 cm, now in the Städel Museum...
(also known as (Master of the Frankfurt ParadiesgärtleinParadiesgärtleinThe Paradiesgärtlein is a panel painting created around 1410. The painter is unknown, referred to as the Meister des Frankfurter Paradiesgärtleins . The painting is executed in mixed techniques on wood; it measures about 26 by 33 centimetres...
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- Master of Vignola
- Master of the Virgo inter VirginesMaster of the Virgo inter VirginesThe Master of the Virgo inter Virgines was a North Netherlandish painter and designer of woodcuts active around Delft between 1483 and 1498. He is named for an altarpiece of the Virgin with Saints Catherine, Cecilia, Ursula, and Barbara which formerly hung in the convent of Konigsveld, but which...
- Master of Vyšší BrodMaster of Vyšší BrodThe Master of Vyšší Brod was an anonymous Bohemian painter active around 1350. It seems likely that he was from Prague originally; an altarpiece for the Cistercian convent of Vyšší Brod, from which his name is derived, may still be seen in Prague...
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- Master W with the KeyMaster W with the KeyMaster W with the Key also known as Master WA and Master of the Housemark was an anonymous Netherlandish engraver, who is thought to have been a goldsmith in Bruges. The name given to him refers to his monogram, which is a W followed by a key symbol. 82 works signed with that monogram are extant...
- Master of the Washington CoronationMaster of the Washington CoronationThe Master of the Washington Coronation is a poorly-known Italian painter who was active in Venice around 1324. His name is derived from a panel painting of the Coronation of the Virgin, dated to that year and held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C...
- Master of WavrinMaster of WavrinThe Master of Wavrin or Master of Jean Wavrin, Wavrin Master , was a French painter and manuscript illuminator active in the region of Lille in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. His name is derived from that of Jean de Wavrin, counselor to Philip III of Burgundy, for whom he seems to...
- Master of the WeibermachtMaster of the WeibermachtThe Master of the Weibermacht was a German engraver active in the Lower Rhine area between about 1450 and 1460. His name comes from the work for which he is best known, a large-format depiction of the Weibermacht, or "Power of Women"...