Master of the Boccaccio Pictures
A Flemish draftsman and engraver who worked between 1470 and 1490 is called the master of the Boccaccio pictures ( French Maître des Illustrations du Boccace ) . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after the copperplate engravings he created for the printed book De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes , the French translation of the works De Casibus Illustrium Virorum Et Mulierum by Giovanni Boccaccio .
Boccaccio's text from the Renaissance around 1380 is a collection of 106 biographies of well-known people from history and mythology . The book edition to which the master of Boccaccio contributed his work was published by Colard Mansion in Bruges in 1476 . The stitches were colored and glued into the book. The editions of the work that are still preserved today are one of the earliest examples of colored copper engravings in a printing unit.
It was suggested that Colard Mansion did the engravings himself. Mostly it is assumed that one or maybe several engravers contributed to the book, including probably the master of the Dresden prayer book and the master with the white inscriptions .
Works (selection)
A few of the engravings by the master of Boccaccio's paintings for Boccaccio's work have survived and are now in the possession of the following museums, for example:
- De la Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes, Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, nine colored engravings Inv.No. 32,458
- Boccaccio presents his book to Mainardo Cavalcanti, colored copper engraving, Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge Inv. No. P.6349-R
Other works ascribed to the master are, for example, the following:
- Resurrection, copperplate engraving, National Gallery of Art , Washington, Inv. No. 1943.3.5807
literature
- Johann David Passavant : Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur métal et au burin jusque vers la fin du XVI. Siècle. Volume 2, Leipzig 1860, pp. 272ff. ( Digitized version ).
- Max Lehrs : The master of the Boccaccio pictures. In: Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections. 23, No. 2, 1902, pp. 124-141 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Max Lehrs: History and critical catalog of German, Dutch and French copper engraving in the XV. Century. Volume 4, Vienna 1921, pp. 165ff. ( Digitized version ); Volume 7. Vienna 1930, p. 392ff. ( Digitized version ).
- Master of the Boccaccio Pictures . 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. 50 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Lippmann : Der Kupferstich (= handbooks of the Royal Museums in Berlin. ) 2nd edition, W. Spemann, Berlin 1896, p. 34 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Master of the Boccaccio Illustrations. In: Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Master of the Boccaccio Pictures |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maître des Illustrations du Boccace (French) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Engraver in Bruges |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th century or 16th century |