Master of the Wiesbaden visitation

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A painter of the Northern Italian Renaissance who was active around 1515 or 1530 is referred to in art history as the master of the Wiesbaden visitation .

The German art historian Hermann Voss gave the emergency name in 1936 . Voss was the curator of the State Museum in Wiesbaden and at that time had bought a panel painting by a painter whose name was not known for its collection . The large format picture depicts the Visitation of Mary and originally came from the Church of San Giovanni Battista in Savona , Italy.

According to Italian research, which is now generally recognized, the master of the Wiesbaden Visitation is Alberto Piazza da Lodi .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Voss: The master of the Wiesbaden "Visitation". New acquisitions by the Wiesbaden art collection (= Rotaryklub Wiesbaden, weekly report, year 7, 1936/37, no. 14). Wiesbaden 1936.
  2. Kathrin Iselt: “Special Commissioner of the Führer”: The art historian and museum man Hermann Voss (1884–1969). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20572-0 (= studies on art. Volume 20, also dissertation at the TU Dresden , 2009). P. 83.
  3. ^ The "Wiesbaden Visitation" . Retrieved April 17, 2018