Master of the Holy Martyrs
As a master of the Holy martyrdoms one is late Gothic painter called, of the late 15th century in Austria in Vienna worked. The master, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from two panel paintings he created , which depict the martyrdoms of Blessed Thiemo of Salzburg and a holy bishop, probably Erasmus of Antioch . The master had created the pictures that can be found today in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery around 1495, presumably for Klosterneuburg Abbey . They were probably part of an altar, to which a third surviving picture is counted, which the Margrave Leopold III. and shows the founding legend of Klosterneuburg Monastery.
The master of the holy martyrs succeeds the master of the Viennese Schotten Altar and is considered to be the forerunner of the so-called Danube School .
Works
From the Master of the Holy Martyrs are preserved in the Austrian Gallery Belvedere:
- Martyrdom of Blessed Thiemo (obverse); Three kneeling donors (back side)
- Martyrdom of St. Erasmus
- St. Leopold and the building of Klosterneuburg Abbey
Panel paintings in Klosterneuburg, Seitenstetten and Wiener Neustadt are also attributed to the master.
Web links
- Digital Belvedere, Master of the Holy Martyrs
literature
- E. Baum: Catalog of the Museum of Medieval Austrian Art . Vienna 1971
- H. Krauss, E. Uthemann: What pictures tell: The classic stories from antiquity and Christianity in occidental painting . Munich 2003
- Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum (Ed.): Saint Leopold. Prince and state symbol (catalog of the Lower Austrian regional exhibition in Klosterneuburg monastery 1985). Vienna 1985