Master of the Anghiari Battle

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A painter of the early Renaissance who worked in northern Italy in the 15th century is referred to as the master of the Anghiari battle or Anghiari master ( English Master of the Battle of Anghiari) .

Naming

The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his depiction of the Battle of Anghiari , painted in oil on wood , which shows the victory of the city-republic of Florence in 1440 over the Duchy of Milan near a bridge near Anghiari on the Tiber River. He is said to have created it along with another image depicting the capture of Pisa by the Florentine troops in 1406. Both paintings were part of the collection of the Irish art collector Hugh Lane in modern times and are now in the possession of the National Gallery of Ireland. The National Gallery of Ireland, however, assigns the picture of the conquest of Pisa to the Florentine painter Biagio di Antonio. The two pictures were probably part of a chest, one of the richly painted pieces of furniture in Florence at the time, popular with noble families in Italian, called Cassoni . More than a dozen similar pictures to Cassoni are assigned to the master. Such Cassoni pictures are examples of profane painting for the rich nobility by painters who otherwise mainly commissioned ecclesiastical works.

style

Stylistically, the work of the master of the Anghiari battle is related to the work of his contemporary Paolo Uccello , who worked in Florence. Some of the master's works were first mistakenly assigned to this or they were settled in the Uccello area before they were recognized as the works of the master of the Anghiari battle . An influence of Francesco Pesellino , another painter in Renaissance Florence, who also painted Cassoni, among others , was seen in the first art-historical analyzes of the master’s works . Even if Cassoni painters are at the transition to the Renaissance, the pictures on the painted chests commissioned by the Florentine aristocratic families are generally still more closely related to a Gothic painting tradition. However, the depictions of the landscapes in the battle pictures of the master of the Anghiari battle are evidently shaped by a close observation of nature, which developed during the Renaissance. The battle of Anghiari was a popular motif among the nobles in Florence and was depicted , among others, by Leonardo da Vinci as a monumental painting in the Sala del Consiglio in the Signoria . This painting has not been preserved.

Works (selection)

By comparing styles, the work of the master should include the following Cassone pictures:

  • The battle of Anghiari . National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, from the Hugh Lane collection
  • The Conquest of Pisa , National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, from the Hugh Lane Collection
  • The Triumph of Caesar , private property
  • Story of David and Goliath , private property
  • The triumph of Aemilius Paulus (after the battle of Pydna) . In holdings managed by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam from the Jacques Goudstikker collection
  • The triumph of Scipio Africanus . Privately owned
  • Scene of a battle . Privately owned

literature

  • Werner Weisbach: Francesco Pesellino and the Romanticism of the Renaissance . Berlin 1901.
  • Paul Schubring: Cassoni panels in English private collections I . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (117, Volume 22) (December 1912), pp. 158-165
  • Roger Frey: Note on the Anghiari and Pisa Cassoni Panels . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 118, volume January 22, 1913.
  • Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. 118, Volume January 22, 1913. pp. 196-197 and pp. 200-203
  • Paul Schubring: Cassoni: Chests and chest pictures of the Italian early Renaissance. A contribution to profane painting in the Quattrocento . Leipzig 1915.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni: chests and chest pictures of the Italian early Renaissance. A contribution to profane painting in the Quattrocento . Leipzig 1915. p. 105
  2. ↑ Christie's Auction House, London Auction November 30, 1979: Master of the Anghiari Battle, A battle scene. Lot 25
  3. ↑ Master of the Battle of Anghiari . In: Emanuel Bénézit, Éditions Gründ (Ed.): Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Paris 2006
  4. ↑ Master of the Anghiari Battle . In: Berend Wispeley (Ed.): Biographical Index of the Middle Ages . Munich 2008, p. 66
  5. ^ Sue Bond Public Relations (ed.): Renaissance Italy Features at Biennale des Antiquaires. Cassone Panel to be Unveiled by Moretti Fine Art. (Press release). Without a place, September 2014
  6. ↑ Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II. In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (118, Volume 22) (January 1913), pp. 196-197, 200-203
  7. ^ National Gallery of Ireland, The Battle of Anghiari, inventory number NGI.778
  8. ^ National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide, Dublin 2008
  9. ^ Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle: Storia della pittura in Italia dal secolo II al secolo XVI. Volume 5 . Florence 1892, p. 60ff
  10. ↑ Seymour de Ricci: A foreword about the rare artistic properties collected by the connoisseur Raoul Tolentino . New York 1920
  11. ^ Werner Weisbach: Francesco Pesellino and the Romanticism of the Renaissance . Berlin 1901, p. 115
  12. ^ Ernst H. Gombrich : Norm and Form. London 1966. p. 18
  13. ^ Werner Weisbach: Francesco Pesellino and the Romanticism of the Renaissance. Berlin 1901, p. 115
  14. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (118, volume 22) (January 1913), cat. No. 116, as masters of the Anghiari battle
  15. ^ Paul Cassirer, Hugo Helbing (Ed.): The Joseph Spiridon Collection (auction catalog May 31, 1929). Berlin 1929, Italian champions lot 50, as masters of the Anghiari battle
  16. ↑ Christine Davis (Ed.): National Gallery of Ireland / Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann: Essential Guide . Woodbridge, Suffolk 2008, as Florentine Master Inventory number NGI.778
  17. ^ Werner Weisbach: Francesco Pesellino and the Romanticism of the Renaissance. Berlin 1901 , p. 115
  18. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II. In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (118, Volume 22) (January 1913), pp. 196-197 200-203 , as masters of the Anghiari battle
  19. ↑ Christine Davis (Ed.): National Gallery of Ireland / Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann: Essential Guide . Woodbridge, Suffolk 2008, as Biagio di Antonio inventory number NGI.780
  20. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (118, volume 22) (January 1913), cat.no.114
  21. ^ Paul Cassirer, Hugo Helbing (Ed.): The Joseph Spiridon Collection (auction catalog May 31, 1929) . Berlin 1929, Italian champions lot 51
  22. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni Panels in English Private Collections II . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (118, Volume 22) (January 1913), cat.no.115
  23. ^ Paul Cassirer, Hugo Helbing (Ed.): The Joseph Spiridon Collection (auction catalog May 31, 1929). Berlin 1929. Italian champions lot 52
  24. ^ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Schilderijencollectie inventory number SK-A-3974 (Meester van de Salg bij Anghiari)
  25. ↑ Christie's auction house: Ancient & Modern Pictures lot 38, auction 25 February 1938
  26. ↑ Tancred Borenius: Unpublished Cassone panels - V . In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (234, Volume 41) (September 1922), p. 105
  27. ↑ Christie's auction house: Lot 25, auction November 30, 1979
  28. ^ Sue Bond Public Relations (ed.): Renaissance Italy Features at Biennale des Antiquaires. Cassone Panel to be Unveiled by Moretti Fine Art . (Press release). Without a place, September 2014
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Anghiari Battle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anghiari master, master of the Anghiari battle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter of the Italian Early Renaissance
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century