Master of the Saint Louis Madonna

As a master of Saint Louis-Madonna ( Engl. Master of the St. Louis Madonna ) is a painter of the Italian early Renaissance refers to the 1475-1500 was about working in Florence.

The master of the Saint Louis Madonna , whose name is not known for certain , was given his emergency name from an altarpiece that he painted around 1486. It depicts the Madonna and Child , Saint Archbishop Louis of Toulouse and the Apostle Thomas as well as the donors of the picture and can be found today in the Saint Louis Art Museum .

Works

Numerous other works have been and are ascribed to the master of the Saint Louis Madonna , including works in well-known museums that are often discussed in art history, such as the Coronation of Mary with Saints in the Keresztény Múzeum in Esztergom, a Madonna with Child and Angels in the Courtauld Gallery in London or a Madonna with Child and Saints in the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. At auctions, works are presented and auctioned under the name of the master. However, it remains controversial which of the works ascribed to the master originate solely from his hand or which is a joint work or the work of another from the workshop of well-known painters such as Domenico Ghirlandaio , Neri di Bicci or Sebastiano Mainardi . Therefore, an exact catalog of works by the master of the Saint Louis Madonna remains controversial.

identification

Various proposals were made to identify the painter of the picture of the Madonna in St. Louis by name, until an equation of this painter with Davide Ghirlandaio, made in early art history, was partially accepted. Davide was a brother of Domenico Ghirlandaio and probably worked in his workshop or environment in Florence. However, whether the image of the Madonna in Saint Louis actually originates from him remains controversial, which is why the independent personality of a master of the Saint Louis Madonna continues to be suggested and examined in art history .

literature

• Tibor Gerevich : Esztergomi műkincsek. In: Prímás Album (Budapest 1928), pp. 179–263 (Hungarian)
• Mucsi András (Ed.): Az esztergomi Keresztény Múzeum Régi Képtárának katalógusa. Budapest 1975 (Hungarian)
• Everett Fahy: Some early Italian pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection. In: The Burlington Magazine 109 (1967) pp 128-139
• Miklos Boskovits: Tuscan Paintings of the Early Renaissance. Budapest 1968
• Jean K. Cadogan: Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven, London 2001

Individual evidence

1. ^ Everett Fahy: Some early Italian pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection. In: The Burlington Magazine 109 (1967) p. 137; Miklos Boskovits: Tuscan Paintings of the Early Renaissance. Budapest 1968, p. 41; Mucsi András (Ed.): Az esztergomi Keresztény Múzeum Régi Képtárának katalógusa. Budapest 1975, p. 46 (Hungarian, as St. Louis-i Madonna mestere); Witt Library Courtauld Institute of Art (Ed.): Checklist of Painters, C1200-1994 Represented in the Witt Library Courtauld Institute of Art London. (2nd edition). London 1995, p. 328.
2. ^ Saint Louis Art Museum, Inv. 109: 1922; Entry in the museum database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  
3. ^ Everett Fahy: Some early Italian pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection . In: The Burlington Magazine 109 (1967) pp 143-144.
4. ↑ The Coronation of Mary with Saints Hieronimus and Anthony of Padua, around 1495, Keresztény Múzeum, Esztergom, inv. No. 55.194.
5. ↑ Madonna and Child, The Courtauld Gallery, London Inv. No. P.1966.GP.265.
6. ↑ Madonna with Child and Saints, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Inv. No. 84.
7. ↑ Master of the St. Louis: Madonna with Child, auction house Finarte Casa d'Aste, Old Master Paintings December 1991, lot 141 (Blouin Art Sale Index, accessed online November 2015)
8. ↑ Tibor Gerevich: Esztergomi műkincsek. In: Prímás Album (Budapest 1928), p. 231 (Hungarian); Bernard Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian schools. Oxford 1932, p. 222; Jean K. Cadogan: Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven, London 2001, pp. 319-329; Everett Fahy: Davide Ghirlandaio: Portrait of a Young Man. In: Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ed.): The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellini . New Haven, CT 2011, pp. 143-144.
9. ^ Bernard Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an index of Places. Central Italian and North Italian schools. Oxford 1932, p. 222
10. ^ Jean K. Cadogan: Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven, London 2001, pp. 155ff.
11. ^ Jean K. Cadogan: Domenico Ghirlandaio: Artist and Artisan. New Haven, London 2001, p. 328.