Master of the Baroncelli Portraits

Master of the Baroncelli Portraits: Portrait of Pierantonio Baroncelli. Around 1489

Master of the Baroncelli Portraits: Portrait of Maria Bonciani. Around 1489

A Dutch painter who worked in Bruges in Flanders around 1489 is referred to as the master of the Baroncelli portraits ( Italian Maestro dei Ritratti Baroncelli) . The artist, who is not known by name, was given his emergency name after the portraits he created of Pierantonio Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani. The painter created these two pictures in oil on wood. They depict Baroncelli, an Italian banker who worked for the Medici banking house in Bruges , and his wife. The two Baroncelli portraits were probably a diptych and have been in the Uffizi in Florence since 1845 and 1843 . On the reverse is the scene of an Annunciation to Mary .

In addition to the Baroncelli portraits, a few other surviving works are ascribed to the master by comparing styles. The master's painting style is reminiscent of that of his contemporary Hans Memling, who worked in Bruges, and that of Peter Christ, who also worked in Bruges a little earlier . The master of the Baroncelli portraits is a contemporary of the master of the Lucia legend .

Works (selection)

• Portraits of Pierantonio Baroncelli and his wife Maria Bonciani , around 1489, Galleria degli Uffizi , Florence, inv. 1036 and Inv. 8405
• Saint Catherina of Bologna with three donors , around 1480, The Courtauld Gallery , London
• Whitsun miracle , Groninger Museum , Groningen (loan from private collection)
• Mary with the child and angels , State Museums in Berlin, Gemäldegalerie , Berlin, inventory no. 551

literature

• Aby Warburg : Flanders Art and Florentine Early Renaissance. Studies . In: 1. Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections 23 (1902), pp. 247–266
• Max J. Friedländer : The old Dutch painting VI. Memling and Gerard David . Berlin 1928
• Max J. Friedländer: The old Dutch painting, X, Lucas van Leyden and other Dutch masters of his time . Berlin, 1932.
• Margaret Koster : Reconsidering St. Catherine of Bologna with Three Donors by the Baroncelli Master of Bruges . In: Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 26,1 / 2 (1998), pp. 4-17
• Claudio Pescio (Ed.): Uffizi Gallery. Official guide . Florence 2001
• Lorne Campbell : Approaches to Petrus Christ . In: Maryan Wynn Ainsworth (ed.): Petrus Christ in Renaissance Bruges: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Museums at the Crossroads). New York, Turnhout, 1995
• Didier Martens: Le Maître des Portraits Baroncelli: un élève de Petrus Christ? . In: Gentse Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis en Oudheidkunde, 30/1995.
• Didier Martens , Hélène Mund : Autour de la Pentecôte Rapaert du Maître des Portraits Baroncelli: modèles et traditions dans la peintureu Brugeoises à l'aube des temps modern . In: Yearbook of the Berlin Museums, 45/2003, pp. 7–37
• Master of the Baroncelli Portraits . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002 (On-Line Edition, English) (accessed October 2013)