Master of the Magdalena

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Master of the Magdalen: Madonna lactans enthroned with St. Peter and St. Leonhard. circa 1270

Master of the Magdalena (English Master of the Magdalen ) is in the history of art the emergency name of a medieval painter in Tuscany who painted the picture of a St. Magdalena around 1270 or 1280. The picture, to be found today in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence , shows a repentant Maria Magdalena with 8 scenes from her life .

Style and classification

The master of Magdalena is a contemporary of Cimabue, who is also active in Tuscany and like him may have had his workshop in Florence. The pictures attributed to the master are still close to the formal style of icon painting from Byzantium . The beginning of a little more movement in the pictures is an example of how medieval art began in the 13th century in Italy to develop its own and renewed formal language of art. B. by Giotto , possibly a pupil of Cimabue, is ultimately converted into the language of Renaissance painting.

Works (selection)

  • Repentant Mary Magdalene with 8 scenes from her life , Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence

Other works ascribed to the master are z. B .:

  • Madonna lactans enthroned with St. Peter and St. Leonhard . Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
  • John the Evangelist . Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence
  • Luke the Evangelist . Uffizi Gallery, Florence
  • Madonna and Child . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Mary enthroned with child and two angels , Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  • Enthroned Maria with child with the hll. Dominic and Martin and two angels

Distinction

In the history of art there are several masters named after their main work a (saint) Magdalena. The master of the (Holy) Magdalena here is to be distinguished from their similar emergency names such as B. Master of the Magdalen legend (around 1490, Brussels) or Master of the Mansi-Magdalena (1510/1530 Antwerp).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Osvald Sirén : Tuscan painters in the XIII. Century . Cassirer, Berlin 1922.
  2. ↑ Mary Enthroned with the Child and Two Angels, Master of St. Magdalena. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Mary Enthroned with Child and Saints Dominic and Martin and two angels, Masters of Saint Magdalena. Retrieved November 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Magdalena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Magdalen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: before 1270
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: after 1280