Master of the Argonaut Tables

The master of the Argonaut tables , sometimes also referred to as the master of the Argonaut pictures, (active in Florence in the second half of the 15th century ) was an Italian painter who is unknown today. It got its emergency name from one of two Cassone panels in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art . The other panel is now attributed to Biagio d'Antonio , which led art research to the assumption that both painters formed a workshop community, at least for a time. The master of the Argonaut tables seems to have been influenced by Pesellino and Fra Filippo Lippi . Research at times attributed parts of his work to a “Paris master” after two panels now kept in Cambridge ( Fogg Art Museum ) and Prague ( Národní Gallery ), until Grohn realized around 1957 that he was to be equated with the master of the Argonaut panels is. As far as is known today, he seems to have mainly painted Cassone panels and house devotional pictures.

Works

• Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
  • Depictions from the story of Cupid and Psyche.
  • Depictions from the story of Cupid and Psyche.
• Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum
  • The judgment of Paris.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Maria with the child.
  • Scenes from the story of the Argonauts.
• Prague, Národní Gallery
  • The judgment of Paris.
• Whereabouts unknown
  • Psyche in the underworld with Cerberus, Proserpina and Charon. (around 1900 in the collection of Karl Graf Lanckoronski)
  • Mary with the child in front of a mountainous landscape. ( auctioned on December 6, 1997 at Lempertz in Cologne)
  • The mystical marriage of St. Catherine of Alexandria. (auctioned at Christie's in New York on January 24, 2003)

literature

• Hannelore Vorteilmann, Everyday Life and Celebrations. Florentine cassanone and espalier painting from the time of Botticelli. National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88609-294-1 .