Master of the Lombard fruit bowl

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The master of the Lombard fruit bowl ( Italian Maestro della fruttiera lombarda ) is a Baroque painter of still life who worked in Italy at the beginning of the 17th century. The unnamed artist attributed to numerous still life with flowers and fruit.

Painting style

The master of the Lombard fruit bowl is a representative of a painting style known as “natura morta”. He used baroque symbolic language to point out the transience of being, the memento mori .

Naming

The master of the Lombard fruit bowl got his emergency name after a group of pictures, all similarly splendid still lifes with flowers and fruits in vase-shaped bowls, which usually stand on a marble or stone base. It was suspected that the still lifes were made in Lombardy, as experts had previously assigned the origin of two of the pictures to an Anonymous Master from Lombardy . Further pictures were then assigned to this master of the Lombard fruit bowl , mostly in the context of auctions of similar pictures from private collections.

Italian or Spanish painter?

However, the attempt was and is controversial to use the emergency name of a master of the Lombard fruit bowl to create an Italian origin for all the images that were assigned to him. It is also questioned whether they all come from just one source. Some of the pictures assigned to the master could also be works by a Spanish painter. One of the pictures originally assigned to the master was previously ascribed to the Spaniard Fray Juan Sánchez Cotán . Other images could be works by Tomás Hiepes .

Individual or workshop?

Furthermore, the entire group of numerous still lifes, which are ascribed to the master of the Lombard fruit bowl and his environment, cannot be understood as the work of a single leading individual artist, but rather as the result of a workshop run by various individual painters in Italy. The work may even come from several different workshops there.

Work catalog

In the meantime, more than 40 oil paintings have been found in the vicinity of a master of the Lombard fruit bowl . All show common typical motifs and compositions and their assignment and differentiation remains an open topic for experts.

After the emergence of the emergency name in 1984, works were repeatedly sold on the art market under the name of the master of the Lombard fruit bowl. These included, for example, the following works, whose auctions, often at very high hammer prices, indicate the continued popularity of the work and emergency name in art circles:

  • Artichokes with lilies and roses in a glass vase. Auction 4769 Spanish Pictures & Drawings, Christies's May 1992, London Lot 324
  • Pastries and cakes in wicker basket with cherries on a branch and a gold cup and a Mexican vase on a stone pedestal. Christie's London: April 2001 lot 103
  • Fruit bowl with two artichokes. Private collection, auction 1620 Important Old Master Paintings, Christie's April 2006, New York, lot 58

literature

  • S. Dathe: Natura morte italiana: Italian still lifes from four centuries, Silvano Lodi collection. (Exhibition catalog Schloss Achberg, Ravensburg). Ravensburg, 2003.
  • M. Gregori: Le botteghe romane e l'accademia di Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. In: La natura morta italiana, da Caravaggio al settecento. Exhibition catalog Florence, Palazzo Strozzi. Milan 2003, ISBN 88-370-2022-8 .
  • Claus Grimm: Still life: the Italian, Spanish and French masters . Belser, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7630-2303-8 .
  • Italian still life painting, from The Silvano Lodi collection . (Exhibition catalog). Tokyo 2001.
  • Jacopo Lorenzelli, Eckard Lingenauber: The lure of still life . Galerie Lingenauber, Düsseldorf 1995, OCLC 34611596 .
  • M. Natale et al .: La natura morta in Lombardia . In: Federico Zeri (ed.): La natura morta in Italia. Electa, Milan 1989.
  • Luigi Salerno: Natura morta - Italian still life painting from three centuries, The Silvano Lodi collection (exhibition catalog) Florence 1984, ISBN 88-7038-093-9 .
  • Luigi Salerno: Italian still life painting from three centuries: Silvano Lodi collection. (Exhibition catalog Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek Munich). Florence 1984, ISBN 88-7038-093-9 .
  • Ramón Torres Martín: La naturaleza muerta en la pintura española. Barcelona 1971, OCLC 629897870 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. A. Cottino: Le Origini e lo sviluppo della natura morta barocca a Roma, Natura morta italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento . In: M. Gregori et. al: Stille Welt Electa 2002, pp. 351-352.
  2. ^ Luigi Salerno: La natura morta italiana, Italian still life painting from three centuries. Collection Silvano Lodi. (trilingual) Rome 1984, pp. 18-21.
  3. ↑ So z. B. John Spike in: Italian Still Life Paintings from three Centuries. Catalog National Academy of Design, New York; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio. Florence 1983.
  4. ↑ Ramon Torres Martin: La Naturaleza Muerta en la pintura Espanola . Barcelona 1971, p. 49.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Lombard fruit bowl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Lombard Fruit Basket; Maestro della fruttiera lombarda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century