Master of the Ashmolean Predella

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Master of the Ashmolean Predella: Nativity, around 1500, Museo Bandini

The master of the Ashmolean predella was a medieval painter who worked in Florence around 1400 . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after the predella he created , which is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It shows the birth of Mary .

The master of the Ashmolean predella is considered a successor to Orcagna and is still stylistically close to Andrea di Cione . A few other images are assigned to him.

literature

  • Richard Offner: A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. Section 4: The Fourteenth Century. Volume 3: Jacopo di Cione. New York University - Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY 1965.
  • Miklòs Boskovits: Pittura Fiorentina. Alla viglia del Rinascimiento, 1370-1400 (= Collana di Studi. Mina Gregori. Vol. 3, ZDB -ID 196388-0 ). Edam, Florence 1975.
  • Christopher Lloyd: A catalog of the earlier Italian Paintings in the Ashmolean Museum. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1977, ISBN 0-19-817342-3 .
  • David Klemm: Italian drawings 1450–1800 (= The collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett. Vol. 2). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20261-3 , p. 233

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