Master of the Milanese Adoration of the Magi

A Flemish painter who worked in Antwerp around 1520 is known as the master of the Milanese Adoration of the Magi . The artist, who is not known by name, is named after a triptych . today in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, which depicts the Adoration of the Magi .

The Master of the Milanese Adoration of the Magi is a representative of a style that was represented by the members of the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke, summarized in art history under the term Antwerp Mannerists , at the beginning of the 16th century. These painters are at the transition from Gothic to Renaissance .

The art historian Max J. Friedländer had identified the 'Master of the Milanese Adoration of the Magi' as part of his research on the Antwerp Mannerists. Another picture attributed to this artist by Friedländer in the collection of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (previously the Kerp collection and then the Dormagen collection) is now shown as a work by Jan de Beer . This identification was based, among other things, on a drawn head study kept in London, for which the name Jan de Beer has been passed down. Thus, the painter of the Milanese picture with the Adoration of the Magi could be identical with de Beer.

literature

• Max J. Friedländer: The Antwerp Mannerists from 1520 , Yearbook of the Royal Prussian Art Collections 36 (1915), pp. 65–91
• Max J. Friedländer: The Dutch Mannerists . Leipzig 1921
• Max J. Friedländer: The Old Dutch Painting, The Antwerp Mannerists, Adriaen Ysenbrandt (Volume 11). Leiden 1934