Biadaiolo master

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A medieval illuminator who worked in Florence in Italy around 1325 is called a biadaiolo master or biadaiolo illuminator . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his nine pictures for a manuscript called Il Biadaiolo (The Grain Merchant ) in Italian . The text, written by Domenico Lenzi , entitled Specchio Umano, describes the distribution and price development of grain in Florence from 1320 to 1335 as well as the social impact of the wealth or need created by the fluctuating grain market. The illuminations of the Biadaiolo master underline such ambivalent development through the representation of z. B. the grain market in the Piazza Orsanmichele in Florence, over which angels hover. This is to express that worldly events are in “God's hands”, just as the moralizing text by Domenico Lenzi calls on traders to recognize such supremacy.

Works

  • Il Biadaiolo , Florence, Bib. Medicea Laurenziana

In addition to the biadolo , two panel paintings are ascribed to the biadaiolo master :

  • Madonna with Child and Saints, Scenes from the Life of Christ and Last Judgment , Metropolitan Museum, New York,
  • Madonna with child and four saints under angels , private property

The works ascribed to the Biadaiolo master cannot be assigned with certainty and are partly ascribed to the catalog raisonné of other masters.

literature

  • Susanna Partsch: Profane illumination of bourgeois society in late medieval Florence. The Specchio Umano of the grain dealer Domenico Lenzi (= Heidelberg art-historical treatises. NF vol. 16). Werner'sche Verlags-Gesellschaft, Worms 1981, ISBN 3-88462-008-8 (At the same time: Heidelberg, University, dissertation, 1980).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Italian: Maestro del Biadaiolo
  2. ^ Richard Offner, Klara Steinweg, Miklós Boskovits, Mina Gregori (eds.): A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting. Section 3: The fourteenth century. Volume 7: The Biadaiolo illuminator. Master of the Dominican Effigies. New York University - Institute of Fine Arts et al., New York NY et al. 1957.
  3. ^ Brigitte Klesse: Literature on Trecento painting in Florence. In: Journal for Art History. Vol. 25, H. 3/4, 1962, ISSN  0044-2992 , pp. 251-276.
  4. ↑ Florence, Bib. Medicea-Laurenziana, MS. Laurenziano-Tempiano (Tempi) 3.
  5. ↑ All nine pictures are usually ascribed to the master, even if two are sometimes suggested as being by another hand
  6. ↑ Partsch: Profane illumination of bourgeois society in late medieval Florence. 1981.
  7. ↑ a b Biadaiolo Master. In: Jane Turner (Ed.): The Dictionary of Art. Volume 20: Mächtig to Medal. Macmillan, London 1996, ISBN 1-884446-00-0 , p. 630.
  8. ^ Richard Offner, Klara Steinweg, Miklós Boskovits, Mina Gregori (eds.): A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting. Section 3: The fourteenth century. Volume 3. New York University - Institute of Fine Arts et al., New York NY et al. 1930.
  9. ↑ cf. also Biadaiolo Master . In: Christopher Kleinhenz (Ed.): Medieval Italy. To Encyclopedia. Volume 1: A to K (= The Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Vol. 9). Routledge, New York et al. 2004, ISBN 0-415-93930-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Biadaiolo master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1320