Master of the cypress

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As a master of cypress one will illuminators from Spain referred to the early 15th century. The artist, not known by name, illuminated twenty preserved choir books from the Cathedral of Seville . It got its emergency name from the typical representations of cypress trees that can be found in two of these books painted between around 1420 and 1440 (books 29 and 66).

identification

The name of the master of the cypress trees could have been Pedro de Toledo or Nicolás Gómez.

style

In the work of the master of the cypress trees , stylistic influences from Giotto and contemporary Italian painting can be seen as a whole, but stylistic elements from Flemish painters are also recognizable.

Work (selection)

In addition to the choir books in Seville, the work of the master of the cypress trees has been repeatedly assigned further miniatures and initials since 1928 through a comparison of styles. These can be found in various libraries and museums, especially in the United States . Individual sheets with illuminations of the on English Master of the Cypresses named artist can be found,. B. in the National Gallery of Art in Washington or the Library of Congress, which is also located in Washington . Similar loose pages are also kept in the Firestone Library of Princeton University or the library of the Eastman School of Music at Rochester University, the images of which are said to come from the master of the cypress trees. An illustrated Bible in Madrid (Madrid, Escorial, MS. 1.13) is ascribed to the master as a complete preserved work. From time to time further works from private collections are identified at auctions and added to his catalog of works.

The master of the cypresses is also said to be the painter of murals in the monastery of San Isidoro del Campo in Santiponce near Seville, which are stylistically very close to the master's miniatures.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Master of the Cypresses . In: Art Encyclopedia. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002, accessed online June 2010
  2. ↑ sz BBC Anderson: Fifteenth-Century Illumination and the Work of Pedro de Toledo . In: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 21, (1993). Pp. 11-28
  3. ↑ see National Gallery of Art Press Office: Rare Manuscript Illuminations Exhibition Provides a Feast for The Eyes and New Research at The National Gallery of Art, Washington March 1 through August 16 2009 . Washington DC 2009 (Press material for the exhibition Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations From the National Gallery of Art August 2009)
  4. ↑ Washington: Library of Congress (ed.): The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection: A Catalog of the Gifts of Lessing J. Rosenwald to the Library of Congress, 1943 to 1975 . Washington: 1977
  5. ↑ S. z. BBC Anderson: Fifteenth-Century Illumination and the Work of Pedro de Toledo . In: The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, Vol. 21, (1993), pp. 11-28.

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personal data
SURNAME Master of the cypress
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Illuminator of the Middle Ages, active in Spain
DATE OF BIRTH before 1420
DATE OF DEATH after 1440