Master of the oldest parts of the bronze door of San Zeno

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The emergency name Master of the oldest parts of the bronze door of San Zeno refers to an artist (or a Veronese workshop) of the early Middle Ages who created the older parts of the bronze doors of San Zeno in Verona , Italy around 1120 . The 23 bronze plates, which were influenced by the Romanesque period , show through the vivid depiction of the figures the turning away from the rigid canon of Byzantine art that previously shaped the religious works of the region .

Peter Bloch has shown in 1962 that in 1100 also from the same workshop, among others, seven-branched candlestick of Klosterneuburg Abbey was produced.

It remains unclear whether the workshop has always been located in Northern Italy and is represented by the trade in workpieces north of the Alps - or, conversely, has migrated from this area. Albert Boeckler sees this workshop in the griffin aquamanile from the Palazzo Schifanoia as well as in the counterpart from Wewelsfleth . It is clear that this “Veronese workshop” ultimately made its home in Northern Italy / Tyrol. Because in the same context is also kneeling female figure from the collection of Robert von Hirsch , who with the inscription Stephanus bearing (inus) me fecit signed and by the leadership of the artist's name and location: Location Riner valley at Adige / upper half of Verona Klause well be assigned can.

Gustav Mazanetz proves in his work on the seven-armed chandelier in Klosterneuburg that it was not carried out by an individual but by a workshop. The incised marks that are also cast indicate the masters M or MA , † , C , P and T as well as various journeymen * , B or MB etc. So it is not surprising that the services of the workshop employees have spread widely and that various figures of Christ can also be assigned to them by lecture crosses . The figures from Cologne , Meran , Monte Brè and Stratzing can be clearly assigned to the group combined as a Tyrolean sequence . Other bronze crucifixes such as that from Möggers and the Lombard series are derived from it.

An angel from the workshop (or in its consequence) can also be seen as the personification of prudence .

literature

  • Franz Winzinger (eds.) And W. Dräyer (recordings): The gate of San Zeno in Verona. Piper, Munich 1958.
  • Drutmar Cremer: I come to you: picture meditations on the bronze door of the Basilica of San Zeno in Verona . Echter, Tyrolia, agency of the Rauhen Haus 1975. (F. Bartl (recordings))
  • Peter Bloch : The seven-armed candlestick from Klosterneuburg . In: Yearbook of Klosterneuburg Monastery NF Vol. 2, 1962, pp. 163–174.
  • Albert Boeckler : The bronze door of Verona . Publishing house of the art history seminar of the University of Marburg, Marburg 1931
  • Peter Bloch : "Romanische Bronzekruzifixe", Bronze Devices of the Middle Ages, Volume 5, Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaften, 1992, ISBN 978-3-87157-143-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Bloch: The seven-armed candlestick from Klosterneuburg , pp. 163-174.
  2. ^ Albert Boeckler: The bronze door of Verona . Publishing house of the art history seminar of the University of Marburg, Marburg 1931
  3. ↑ Peter Bloch: The seven-armed candlestick from Klosterneuburg , p. 171 and Figure 18.
  4. ↑ Gustav Mazanetz: Tokens on seven-branched candelabrum in Klosterneuburg . In: Yearbook of Klosterneuburg Monastery NF Vol. 2, 1962, pp. 175–192.
  5. ↑ Peter Bloch: The seven-armed candlestick from Klosterneuburg , p. 171 and Figure 19, 20 and 21.
  6. ^ Cologne, Museum Schnütgen inventory number G 530; Peter Bloch: Romanesque bronze crucifixes (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages , volume 5). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1992, No.IG 3, around 1130
  7. ↑ Former collection Franz Tappeiner , Peter Bloch: Romanesque bronze crucifixes (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages , volume 5). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1992, No. IG 4, early 12th century, found in a hospital in Meran.
  8. ^ National Museum Zurich : inventory number 19905; Peter Bloch: Romanesque bronze crucifixes (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages , volume 5). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1992, No. IG 2, around 1130, acquired in Tyrol in 1935.
  9. ↑ Harry Kühnel : Romanesque Art in Austria . Exhibition catalog Krems an der Donau 1964, p.
  10. ↑ Peter Bloch: Romanesque bronze crucifixes (= bronze devices of the Middle Ages , volume 5). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1992, pp. 100-109.
  11. ↑ Albert Boeckler: The bronze door of Verona , 1931
  12. ↑ Baltimore, Walters Art Museum inventory number 54.52; The Year 1200 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1970, ISBN 978-0870990021 , p. 125, catalog number 129 .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the oldest parts of the bronze door of San Zeno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Artist
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century or 12th century
DATE OF DEATH 12th Century