Master of the Barberini tablets

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Master of the Barberini Tablets (Fra Carnevale?): Presentation of Mary in the Temple (Italy, around 1460), Museum of Fine Arts de Boston

A painter from Italy in the 15th century is referred to as the master of the Barberini panels ( Italian : Maestro delle Tavole Barberini) . The artist, not known by name, created two panels with scenes from the life of Mary around 1460 or 1475 . These came into the collection of Cardinal Antonio Barberini in 1631 and give the master his emergency name . The master of the Barberini panels is close to the style of his contemporary Filippino Lippi and his work is an outstanding example of Renaissance painting in central Italy, as it developed in Umbria , Tuscany and the surrounding regions. The master may have worked in the cities of Florence or Urbino .

identification

The identification of the master of the Barberini tablets and his exact catalog raisonné have long been discussed in the professional world. The following painters are suggested as a true identity:

However, there is still no agreement as to who among the painters mentioned could actually have been the master of the Barberini panels . Bramante is now considered unlikely. Recently Barolomeo Caporali and especially Fra Carnevale have been proposed again.

The panels as part of an Urbino altar?

It has been suggested that the Barberini panels were part of the altar created around 1467 for the Church of Santa Maria della Bella in Urbino, which Giorgio Vasari mentions in his biography of Bramante in the 16th century . This altar actually went into the possession of Barberini. Although pictures from it are further mentioned in a directory from 1644 as those of Fra Carnevale, not all experts agree with this opinion.

Works (selection)

The two paintings by the master of the Barberini tablets from the Barberini collection are now in museums in the United States: they can be found

Two scenes of the Annunciation are also attributed to the master of the Barberini tablets , in which he uses Renaissance architecture as a typical framework for him:

In the course of time, more than fifty pictures were found, which can be associated with the master, for example by comparing the styles of architectural painting.

The architecture in the master's pictures

The master of the Barberini panels and his work are discussed in art history primarily because of the ambitious depiction of architecture and its skilful integration into the image content. The image of the Annunciation in Washington is a typical example of how the painters of the Quattrocento architecture in their pictures strictly formalized and in correct perspective, as is also found in the master of the Gardner Annunciation . The master of the Barberini panels draws the beholder's view of his Annunciation picture through an archway in the foreground into the paradisiacal garden in the background and thus combines a strictly formalized central perspective and precise observation of reality with this mystical Marian symbol of the Virgin Mary's predecessor to underline the picture content the master of the Barberini panels and many contemporaries only hint at the architecture in their pictures by selecting a formative section such as an archway or an apse. In the picture of the temple walk, however, the master shows his efforts to give a comprehensive idea of ​​a Jewish temple. Like the archway that leads to the Paradise Garden, the architecture of the Temple of God becomes a picture in a picture.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ R. Offner: The Barberini panels and their painter. In: W. Koehler (Ed.): Medieval studies in memory of A. Kingsley Porter. Cambridge, Mass. 1939, volume?, Pp. 205-253.
  2. ↑ A. Parronchi: Leon Battista Alberti as a Painter. In: Burlington Magazine. 104, pp. 280-87 (1962).
  3. ↑ see Barolomeo Caporali. In: U. Thieme, F. Becker: Künstlerlexikon. V, Leipzig 1911, p. 544.
  4. ^ R. Longhi: Piero della Francesca. Florence 1963, p. 199ff.
  5. ^ GM Richter: Rehabilitation of Fra Carnevale. In: Art Quarterly. 3 (1940), pp. 311-24.
  6. ↑ K. Christiansen. For Fra Carnevale. In: Apollo. 109, pp. 198-201 (1979).
  7. ^ F. Zeri: Due dipinti, la filologia e un nome: il Maestro delle Tavole Barberini . Turin 1961 (Italian)
  8. ↑ G. Swarzenski. The Master of the Barberini Panels: Bramante. In: Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, 38, pp. 90-97 (1940).
  9. ↑ cf. P. Dal Poggetto: Il "maestro delle tavole Barberini" - chi era costui? In: Paolo Dal Poggetto (ed.): Piero e Urbino, Piero e le corti rinascimentali. Venice 1992, pp. 301–317 (Italian)
  10. ↑ D. Benati: Il "Maestro delle tavole Barberini": un ritratto. In: Nuovi studi. 1.1996,1, pp. 25-28 (Italian)
  11. ↑ see M. Ceriana u. a .: Fra Carnevale. Un artista rinascimentale da Filippo Lippi a Piero della Francesca. Exhibition catalog Pinacoteca di Brera. Milan 2004 (Italian)
  12. ^ K. Christiansen: Florence: Filippo Lippi and Fra Carnevale. In: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ed.): From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and the Making of a Renaissance Master. New York 2005.
  13. ↑ assigned by B. Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School . London 1963, Volume 1, p. 141.
  14. ↑ assigned by F. Zeri: Il Maestro dell'Annunciazione Gardner. In: Bollettino d'arte. 38 (April-June 1953), pp. 130-131.
  15. ↑ s. also J. Traeger: Renaissance and Religion: The Art of Faith in Raphael's Age . Munich 1997, p. 353.
  16. ↑ s. a. Paul Zucker. Spatial representation and image architecture in the Florentine Quattrocento . Leipzig 1913, p. 146.
  17. ^ SA Horsthemke: The picture in the picture in Italian painting: For the representation of religious paintings in the Renaissance . Galda 1996, p. 132.

literature

  • Barolomeo Caporali. In: U. Thieme, F. Becker: Künstlerlexikon. Volume V, Leipzig 1911, p. 544.
  • R. Offner: The Barberini panels and their painter. In: W. Koehler (Ed.): Medieval studies in memory of A. Kingsley Porter. Cambridge, Mass. 1939, volume?, Pp. 205-253.
  • Maestro delle Tavole Barberini . In: M. Sennato: Dizionario Larousse della pittura italiana. Dalle origini ai nostri giorni. Rome 1998 (Italian)
  • Maître des Panneaux Barberini. In: M. Laclotte, J.-P. Cuzin, A. Pierre: (Larousse) Dictionnaire de la peinture. Paris 2003 (French)
  • Master of the Barberini Panels. In: Oxford Grove Art. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002 (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Master of the Barberini tablets
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century