Master of the Kress Landscapes

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As a master of the Kress Landscapes ( Engl. Master of the Kress Landscapes ) was up to its identification, an unnamed well-known painter of the Renaissance called. At first, art historians only knew a number of pictures from his creative period around 1515 or 1520. The artist was given his emergency name after three of his landscape pictures , which were included in a 1939 gift from Samuel H. Kress to the National Gallery of Art in Washington . He could then be identified as Giovanni Larciani and the works grouped around these pictures were assigned by name to this Italian master from Florence . The identification is based on a contract from 1521, which could be found for an altarpiece in Fucecchio that was ascribed to the master of the Kress landscapes and which contained the name Larcianis.

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Giovanni Larciani (formerly Master of the Kress Landscapes): Scenes from a Legend. c. 1515/1520, Washington, National Gallery of Art

Originally, the following three landscape paintings were listed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington and an altarpiece and some related works in the Museo Civico in Fucecchio under the name Master of the Kress Landscapes :

  • Scenes from a Legend (1), c. 1515/1520, Washington, National Gallery of Art Inv. No.1939.1.344.a
  • Scenes from a Legend (2), approx. 1515/1520, Washington, National Gallery of Art Inv. No.1939.1.344.b
  • Scenes from a Legend (3), ca.1515/1520, Washington, National Gallery of Art Inv. No.1939.1.344.c
  • Altarpiece of the Holy Family with (four) saints , 1523, Museo Civico, Fucecchio
  • Altarpiece Nativity , 1521–1523, Museo Civico, Fucecchio

These works are now exhibited under the name Giovanni Larciani (formerly Master of the Kress Landscapes) . Furthermore, from time to time other works are assigned under this name, previously anonymous, such as B .:

  • Holy Virgin with Christ Child adored by the Johanneskind (cardboard box), Galerie Hans, Hamburg
  • Holy Family with John (oil painting), Galleria Borghese, Rome

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see e.g. Marc-Arthur Kohn auction (Paris), March 1994, lot 5 .
  2. ↑ Federico Zeri: Eccentrici fiorentini - Il pittore dei Paesaggi Kress . In: Bolletino d'Arte , 47, 1 (1962) p. 227.
  3. ↑ LA Waldman: The 'Master of the Kress Landscapes' Unmasked: Giovanni Larciani and the Fucecchio Altar-piece . In: The Burlington Magazine , 140, 1998, pp. 456-469.
  4. ↑ cf. LA Waldman: Un nome per il Maestro dei Paesaggi Kress: Giovanni Larciani e la pala d'altare di Fucecchio . In: Erba d'Arno , 74, 1998, pp. 22-47.
  5. ^ MF Hans (ed.): Raffael and his circle: hand drawings from the Wolf Bürgi collection (exhibition catalog of the Hans Gallery). Hamburg, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Kress Landscapes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larciani, Giovanni; Master of the Kress Landscapes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 1520