Master of the Coronation of Mary in Washington

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Coronation of the Virgin, Venice, around 1325. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

As a master of Washington Coronation of the Virgin ( English : Master of the Washington Coronation ) is called a self-little-known in the art history of Italian painters of the Middle Ages. The artist, who is not known by name, was probably active in Venice around 1324 . It is named after the picture of the Coronation of the Virgin that he created , which is now in the National Gallery of Art in Washington .

Identification with Paolo Veneziano

The Washington Coronation is described by the National Gallery of Art itself as a work by Paolo Veneziano , but other art experts see the painting style of the work as an independent painting technique and take it out of the catalog raisonné of this Venetian painter. Various other names are proposed on the basis of document studies to resolve the emergency name of the Master of the Coronation of Mary in Washington , including Marco di Martino da Venezia, brother of Paolo Veneziano or Martino, father of these two painters. No pictures of Marco or Martino can be proven.

style

The Washington Coronation style is close to a Byzantine painting style and iconography , but also shows a dynamic development of this generally more rigid and formulaic style by painters such as the Master of the Coronation of the Virgin Mary of Washington .

Other works

From time to time pictures are found whose stylistic features make them appear as possibly further works by the Master of the Coronation of Mary of Washington . However, such assignments remain controversial.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Master of the Washington Coronation . In: J. Turner: The Dictionary of Art. Volume 20. London 1996, pp. 784-785
  2. ^ English: Coronation (of the Virgin)
  3. ↑ Master of the Washington Coronation . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002 (online edition)
  4. ↑ see e.g. Sotheby's auction house, Important Old Master Paintings - Sale 8061, Lot 175, New York, January 2005
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Coronation of Mary in Washington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Washington Coronation (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter of the Middle Ages
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century