Master of the Barbara legend

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A Dutch painter who worked in the region or city of Brussels from around 1470 to 1500 is known as the master of the Barbara legend .

Master of the Barbara legend. Martyrdom of St. Crispinus and Crispinianus . Around 1490-1500. Warsaw National Museum .

Naming based on images from the Barbara legend

The master of the Barbara legend , not known by name, is named after his triptych with scenes from the Barbara legend . Its fragments are now distributed in museums in Brussels and Bruges.

Other works

Over the years, art historians from all over the world have ascribed various other works to the master of the Barbara legend . These include z. B .:

  • Anne altar of St. Catherine's Church in Frankfurt
  • Triptych with scenes from the life of Job. WRM Wallraf-Richartz-Museums & Fondation Corboud, Cologne.
  • Coronation of Emperor Heinrich II by Pope Benedict VIII. LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster.

The master's division of labor?

By using transparent paint, the master of the Barbara legend achieved a special light effect on the facial features of his figures. Since, in contrast to this more refined technique, other parts of some of his works seem less artistic or created in a different style, it is assumed that the master used other painters in his workshop in order to increase productivity in a division of labor. Also z. B. a part of the triptych ascribed to him, the Job Altar in Cologne, assigned to the master of the Catherine legend.

identification

Possibly the master of the Barbara legend is Aert van den Bossche .

Web links

Commons : Aert van den Bossche  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Max J. Friedländer : The master of the Barbara legend. In: Yearbook for Art History. 1924/1925, ISSN  0863-582X , pp. 20-25.
  2. ↑ Master of the Barbara legend . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 33-34 .
  3. ↑ cf. z. B. Walter S. Gibson : A new identification for a panel by the St. Barbara Master. In: The art bulletin. Volume 47, No. 4, 1965, ISSN  0004-3079 , pp. 504-506; or Federico Zeri: Un tread of the 'Maestro della leggenda di Santa Barbara'. In: Paragone. Arte . No. 125, 1960, ISSN  1120-4737 , pp. 41-45; and Micheline Sonkes: Quelques dessins attribués au maître de la légende de sainte Barbe. In: Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire de l'art offerts au Professeur Jacques Lavalleye (= Recueil de travaux d'histoire et de philologie. 4th sér., Fasc. 45, ZDB -ID 437846-5 ). Bureaux du recueil, Bibliothèque de l'Université, Louvain 1970, pp. 281-289.
  4. ↑ Joost de Geest (Ed.): 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge. Racine, Brussels 2006, ISBN 2-87386-470-2 , p. 418 (French).
  5. ↑ Joost de Geest (Ed.): 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge. Racine, Brussels 2006, ISBN 2-87386-470-2 , p. 419 (French).