Master of the Months of Luke

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The Flemish painter or draftsman who created the templates for a series of 12 tapestries in the 16th century is referred to as the Master of the Months of Luke or Master of the Months of Luke ( French Maître des Mois Lucas , English Master of the months of Lucas }) . These each represented one of the 12 months of the year. First, the designs of the tapestries were attributed to the Renaissance painter and engraver Lucas van Leyden . However, this assumption could not be confirmed. Therefore, the artist who was not known by name was given the emergency name Master of the Months of Luke . The large-format carpets made from the master's cardboard boxes were often copied in whole or in part in the following decades for the production of other series of tapestries with depictions of the 12 months. The first series of tapestries was cast about 1535, and was then owned by the French king Louis XIV. ; it was destroyed in 1797. Copies of the related carpets can now be found in various museums, for example in France in the Fontainebleau Palace , in Austria in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna or in the United States in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Edith Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1. New York 1987, p. 332

literature

  • Heinrich Göbel: Tapestries (Part I, Volume 1): The Netherlands . Leipzig, 1923
  • Edith A. Standen: Drawings for the "Months of Lucas" tapestry series , In: Master Drawings, 9/1971, pp. 3-14
  • Edith A. Standen: European Post-Medieval Tapestries and Related Hangings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Volume 1 and Volume 2), New York 1987
  • Edith A. Standen: The Comte de Toulouse's 'Months of Lucas' Tapestries: Sixteenth Century Designs with Eighteenth-Century Additions " . In: The Metropolitan Museum Journal 31, 1996, pp. 59-79
  • Edith A. Standen: Two costume studies by François-André Vincent . In: Master Drawings, 37/1999, pp. 271–276
  • Thomas P. Campbell: Tapestry in the Baroque, threads of Splendor . New York, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Months of Luke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Luke Months; Maître des Mois Lucas; Master of the months of Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century