Maestro di San Francesco

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Francis Master: St. Francis preaching to the birds, around 1260.

Master of St. Francis of Assisi or Francis Master ( Italian Maestro di San Francesco ) is an Italian painter of unknown name who created frescoes and possibly glass pictures in the area around Perugia in Umbria , Italy . He was active between 1260 and 1280.

Naming

The Francis Master received his emergency name from the art historian Henry Thode after a picture in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi , which depicts Saint Francis of Assisi with angels .

Works and style

Works by the Franciscan Master can mainly be seen in the Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi , for example a cycle of frescoes in the nave of the lower church with five scenes from the Passion of Christ on the right and five scenes from the life of St. Francis on the left (these were damaged when the side chapels were later opened).

Despite the possible assistance of strangers in the creation of the works, they seem to have been planned by a single artist and show a uniform style. They are probably based on imitations of the late Giunta Pisano , but also show influences from other Umbrian artists such as Rainaldetto di Ranuccio , Simeone and Machilone from Spoleto and influences from contemporary illuminations such as the Bible by Giovanni da Gaibana from Padua .

The Master of St. Francis embodies an important aspect of the connection between Italian and Byzantine icon painting combined with detail painting and colors that are foreign to the Byzantine style.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ H. Thode: Franz von Assisi and the beginnings of the art of the Renaissance in Italy . 2nd improved edition, G. Grote 1904

literature

  • Saskia Esser: The painting of the lower church of San Francesco in Assisi by the Franciscan Master. Bonn 1983 (Bonn, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Diss., 1983).
  • Elvio Lunghi: Una "copia" antica dagli affreschi del maestro di San Francesco. In: Paragone. Arte . Vol. 40, 1989, ISSN  1120-4737 , pp. 12-29 (Italian).
  • Joachim Poeschke: The "Franziskusmeister" and the beginnings of the painting of S. Francesco in Assisi. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , vol. 27, no. 2, ISSN  0342-1201 , 1983, pp. 125-170.
  • Jürgen Schultze: On the art of the "Franziskusmeister". In: Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. 25, 1963, ISSN  0083-7105 , pp. 109-150.
  • Jürgen Schultze: The frescoes in the lower church of San Francesco in Assisi and other works by the “Francis Master”. In: Raggi. Vol. 7, 1967 ZDB -ID 528282-2 , pp. 44-58.
  • Henry Thode : Francis of Assisi and the beginnings of Renaissance art in Italy. 2nd improved edition. G. Grote, Berlin 1904.

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personal data
SURNAME Maestro di San Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of St. Francis; Francis Master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH before 1260
DATE OF DEATH after 1280