Guglielmo de Marcillat
Round window in San Francesco by Guglielmo de Marcillat: “Pope Honorius III. approves the rule of the order of St. Francis "
Guglielmo de Marcillat (* 1467/1470 in La Châtre in what is now the Indre department (France); † 1529 in Arezzo ), also Guillaume de Pierre de Marcillat , was an Italian glass painter of French origin and the first teacher of Giorgio Vasari , who gave him his biography sets a detailed monument.
Numerous stained glass windows have been preserved from him in Cortona , Arezzo and Florence . But he also tried his hand at wall painting and frescoed four vaulted ceilings in Arezzo Cathedral . In the Gemäldegalerie of Berlin there is the oil painting “The dispute of church teachers about the immaculate conception”, which is considered one of two surviving oil paintings, the second is in Chiusi della Verna .
literature
- Giorgio Vasari : The lives of the excellent gem cutters, glass and miniature painters Valerio Belli , Guillaume de Marcillat and Giulio Clovio . Edited, commented and introduced by Anja Zeller. Verlag Klaus Wagenbach , Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-8031-5030-2
Web links
Commons : Guillaume de Marcillat - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Kilb : Everything about Eva: A work by the Renaissance painter Marcillat in Berlin , FAZ , December 7, 2013, p. 34
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Marcillat, Guglielmo de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marcillat, Guillaume de Pierre de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian glass painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | between 1467 and 1470 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Chatre , Indre Department , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1529 |
| Place of death | Arezzo , Italy |