Master of the Magdalene legend

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Master of the Magdalene legend: Maria Magdalena. National Gallery, London NG2614
Master of the Magdalene Legend: Portrait of Margaret of Austria . Musée du Louvre, Paris RF 2259

As a master of Magdalen Legend one is old Dutch painter named, of up to 1526 was active from the late 15th century from about 1,483th He could have worked in Brussels or Mechelen .

Naming

The artist, who is not known by name, received his emergency name from two altarpieces he created between 1515 and 1520, which depict scenes from the legends of Mary Magdalene . The pictures show the saint before her conversion on the hunt and afterwards at the sermon, they were part of a cycle of altar paintings on the Magdalene legend and in modern times part of the collection of the Kaiser-Friedrich Museum in Berlin. One of the pictures was destroyed between 1940 and 1945, the picture of the sermon is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . A reconstruction of the entire cycle was proposed by comparing styles with other pictures, although this remains controversial among art historians.

Painting style

Stylistically, the master of the Magdalene legend is close to the art of painting by Rogier van der Weyden ; his style in later works also partly resembles that of Bernard van Orley , the Flemish painter who was influenced by Italian art and especially Raphael . From 1520 to 1527 he was court painter to Margaret of Austria , governor of the Habsburg Netherlands and also worked for her successor. The master, together with the painter Colijn de Coter , who worked in Italy but came from Flanders, could be described as "the link between the long-flourishing Roger workshop and the Barent von Orley".

meaning

An extensive altarpiece and numerous portraits are ascribed to the master of the Magdalene legend . About 50 pictures should be attributed to him in style analogy. One can assume, however, that many of them come from a workshop run by the master or at least only from the master’s circle.

With acceptance of the master's catalog of works, his work could be seen as one of the examples of Flemish painters who slowly broke away from the traditional, often formulaic and religious commissioned work and who, under the influence of the Italian Renaissance, turned to realistic painting close to nature . This is particularly noticeable in the realistic and artful depictions of the faces of the figures painted by the master, which can already be recognized in early works, and then in the artful, often allegorical portraits of secular dignitaries.

identification

It has been suggested that the master of the Magdalene legend could be identical to Pieter van Coninxloo. This is traceable from around 1460 to around 1513 and was active in Brussels in 1479, his name is mentioned in the archives of Margaret of Austria as a portrait painter. An equation with the master of the portraits of princes has also been assumed, various portraits of high-ranking people are ascribed to this master, but this attribution has not prevailed either.

Works (selection)

The following reconstruction is proposed as a cycle of the Magdalen legend of the master:

  • Riding of Mary Magdalene . Formerly Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Berlin, inventory no.2128 (lost)
  • The sermon of Mary Magdalene . Philadelphia Museum of Art, John G. Johnson Collection Collection, Philadelphia, inventory Cat. 402
  • Raising Lazarus from the dead . Staatens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, inventory KMS sp 717
  • Magadalena washes Christ's feet (with Simon the Pharisee) . Szépmuvészeti Múzeum, Budapest, inventory 1338
  • Noli me tangere . (Christ as gardener and adoring donor). State Museum. State Museum, Schwerin, inventory G. 196
  • Louis X of France with donors and Saint Mary Magdalene . State Museum, Schwerin, inventory G. 198

Numerous other religious images are mentioned as the work of the master:

  • The Virgin Mary with the Child and Saint Francis (Triptych). Privately owned
  • The weeping Magdala . National Gallery, London, inventory NG3116
  • Holy Family , Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, inventory 948
  • Emperor Augustus and the Sibyl of Tibur . Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, inventory 8619
  • Madonna and Child . Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
  • Mary of the Annunciation . Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Münster, inventory 158
  • Mary Magdalene . National Gallery, London, inventory NG2614
  • Mary Magdalene . Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, inventory 9791
  • Maria with the child . Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, inventory KGM A 1062
  • Mary with the child and book . State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage - Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, inventory 547A
  • Mary with the child and the donors . Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
  • Rest on the flight to Egypt . National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  • Annunciation . Musée d'Art Ancien, Brussels

The master's portrait works include:

  • Portrait of Margaret of Austria . Musée du Louvre, Paris, inventory RF 2259
  • Portrait of Margaret of Austria . Musée National du Château de Versailles, Versailles, inventory MV 4026
  • Portrait of a man . Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon
  • Portrait of Philip the Fair . Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, inventory Cat. 1175
  • Portrait of a praying man . Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, inventory Cat. 410
  • Portrait of a man as St. Andrew and Portrait of a man as St. Sebastian , Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, inventory nos. 251.a and 251.b

literature

  • Jeanne Maquet-Tombu: Un triptique du Maître de la Légende de Marie-Madeleine. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts 5/15, 1927, pp. 5-16
  • Jeanne Maquet-Tombu: Le maître de la légende de Marie-Madeleine (nouvelles attributions). In: Gazette des beaux-arts 6/3, 1930, pp. 190–193
  • Max J. Friedländer : The old Dutch painting. Tape. 12. Pieter Coeck, Jan van Scorel. Leiden 1935, p. 15 ff.
  • Max J. Friedländer: The old Dutch painting. Volume 14. Pieter Bruegel and additions to the earlier volumes. Leiden 1937, p. 150.
  • Master of the Magdalene legend . 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. 211 .
  • Aquilin Janssens de Bisthoven (ed.): Primitifs flamands anonymes: maîtres aux noms d'emprunt des Pays-Bas meridionaux du XVe et du debut du XVIe siècle . (Exhibition catalog). Bruges 1969, p. 130; 264.
  • Master Of The Magdalen Legend. In: A checklist of painters c1200-1976 represented in the Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art, London. London 1978, p.
  • Lorne Campbell: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Schools. London 1998, pp.
  • Ernst Günther Grimme : Wishes Fulfilled - Museum Acquisitions from Three Decades, Aachen 2003, p.

Individual evidence

  1. Max J. Friedländer: The old Dutch painting. Tape. 12. Pieter Coeck, Jan van Scorel. Leiden 1935, p. 15 ff .; Master of the Magdalene legend . 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. 211 .
  2. Master of the Legend of St Mary Magdalene. In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (On-Line Edition, accessed August 2014, English);
    Lost Art ID 020666 . In: Coordination Office Magdeburg: Lost Art (database), accessed September 2014.
  3. Jeanne MAQUET Tombu: Un du triptique Maitre de la Légende de Marie-Madeleine. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 5/15 (1927), pp. 5-16;
    Diane Apostolos-Cappadona: From Apostola Apostolorum to Provençal Evangelist: On the Evolution of a Medieval Motif for Mary. In: Peter Loewen, Robin Waugh (Eds.): Mary Magdalene in Medieval Culture: Conflicted Roles. New York 2014 pp. 163–180.
  4. ^ Friedrich Winkler: The old Dutch painting: Painting in Belgium and Holland from 1400 to 1600. Berlin 1924, p.
  5. Max J. Friedländer: The old Dutch painting, volume 14. Pieter Bruegel and supplements to the earlier volumes. Leiden 1937, p. 150.
  6. Master of the Legend of St Mary Magdalene. In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art (On-Line Edition, accessed August 2014, English).
  7. Lost Art ID 020666 . In: Coordination Office Magdeburg: Lost Art (database), accessed September 2014.
  8. Cat. 402 (Saint Mary Magdalene Preaching) . In: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Collections (database), accessed September 2014.
  9. KMD dp 717 In: Staatens Museum for Kunst (database), accessed September 2014.
  10. No. 1338 In: Szépmuvészeti Múzeum (database), accessed September 2014.
  11. Christies Auction House, Auction 7981 - Old Master & British Paintings - Day Sale 6 July 2011 London, No.?.
  12. NG3116 In: The National Gallery - Paintings, London (database), accessed September 2014.
  13. Inv. 8619 In: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (database), accessed September 2014.
  14. NG2614 In: The National Gallery - Paintings, London (database), accessed September 2014.
  15. Inv. 9791 In: Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (database), accessed September 2014.
  16. RF 2259 In: Louvre Atlas (database), accessed September 2014.
  17. Cat. 1175 In: Philadelphia Museum of Art: Collections (database), accessed September 2014.
  18. 410 In: Philadelphia Museum of Art Collections (database), accessed September 2014.
  19. no. 251.a and 251.b . In: Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, on-line database accessed September 2014.