Master of the Santa Verdiana

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Master of the Santa Verdiana: St. Jacobus. Florence, around 1400

A painter of the Italian Early Renaissance who worked in Florence (Italy) around 1400 is referred to as the Master of Santa Verdiana . The artist , who is not known by name , is assigned almost forty pictures by comparing styles, and the examination of his work can therefore be regarded as an important contribution to the art-historical research of Florentine painting of the early 15th century.

The master is named after one of his paintings, which he created for the Santa Verdiana church in Florence and which depicts a Madonna and Child .

It has been suggested that the Master of Santa Verdiana is identical to Tommaso del Mazza . This painter was active around 1370 in the workshop of the important Florentine painter, sculptor and architect Andrea Orcagna and his brother Jacopo.

The pictures of the master of Santa Verdiana usually have a background of gold and often show saints in an almost frozen posture, with which the master strives for a symbolic representation rather than a lifelike representation of a person.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miklós Boskovits: The Master of Santa Verdiana. Contributions to the history of Florentine painting at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries . In: Communications from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 13 (1967/68) page 31
  2. ↑ Barbara Deimling: Tommaso del Mazza (Master of Santa Verdiana). In: Miklós Boskovits (Ed.): Corpus of Florentine Paintings, Section IV, Vol: VIII . Florence 2000, pages 107-369

literature

  • Federico Zeri: Il Maestro di Santa Verdiana . In: Paul A. Underwood, Samuel H. Kress Foundation (Ed.): Studies in the History of Art Dedicated to William E. Suida on his Eightieth Birthday. New York, London 1959, pages 35-40
  • Miklós Boskovits: The Master of Santa Verdiana. Contributions to the history of Florentine painting at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries . In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz , Volume 13, Issue 1/2 (1967), pages 31–60
  • Barbara Deimling: Il Maestro di Santa Verdiana: un polittico disperso e il problema dell'identificazione . In: Arte Cristiana 79/747 (1991), p. 406
  • Johannes Tripps: News from the Maestro di Santa Verdiana, a discovery in the Baden-Württemberg art trade . In: Die Weltkunst 61 (May 10, 1991), page 1473
  • Barbara Deimling, John Nolan, Carl Brandon Strehlke, Yvonne Szafran: Discovering a Pre-Renaissance Master: Tommaso Del Mazza . Greenville, South Carolina 2009
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Santa Verdiana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tommaso del Mazza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Florentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century