Master of Aeneas

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Image plate with scene from the Aeneas legend, Limoges around 1530, so-called “Aeneas master”; Fragment; Copper and painter's enamel, heightened gold; Museum of Applied Arts , Frankfurt am Main, Inv. No. X 17335

With master of Aeneas (or Aeneas Master ) an unknown artist is called, the order from 1501 to 1533 in France was active; his emergency name goes back to his enamel series of depictions of the myth about the Trojan hero Aeneas .

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The choice of enamel as the material for depictions from the Aeneid is unusual and makes the series a work of art unique in its kind. Why this technique was chosen and who was the client of this very complex work, like the name of the master, has remained unknown. The master probably used woodcuts from the edition of the Aeneid, printed by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg in 1502, as a template. His series was broken up over time, over 80 of the scenes that have been preserved are now in various museums, especially in Paris in the Louvre , but also e.g. B. one in the Museum Angewandte Kunst (Frankfurt am Main).

classification

One tried - probably unsuccessfully - to classify the enamel artist in the tradition of Limoges .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jean Joseph Marquet de Vasselot: Les émaux Limousin. De la fin du XVe siècle et de la première partie du XVIe. Étude sur Nardon Pénicaud et ses contemporains 2 volumes (Textbd. Tafelbd.). Picard, Paris 1921.
  2. ↑ A list of the storage locations is contained in Deutsche Fotothek: Aeneas-Meister .
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SURNAME Master of Aeneas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aeneas master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Email artist
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century