Master of the Bambino Vispo

Master of Bambino Vispo: Last Judgment, around 1422

The artist, not known by name, Meister des Bambino Vispo ( Master of the Lively Baby Jesus ) was a Gothic painter who may have worked in Florence in the early 15th century . He got his emergency name after the repeated depiction of a lively Jesus child (Italian Bambino Vispo ) in his pictures of Our Lady .

The Spanish painter Miguel Alcañiz or, more often, the Italian painter Gherardo Starnina is seen in him not without controversy . Comparable works were created by his Florentine contemporaries Lorenzo Monaco , Agnolo Gaddi and the master of the Madonna Straus .

Works (selection)

Virgin with child, saints and angels, Florence, Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze
Virgin with Child (Virgin of Humility :, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art )
Virgin with child, saints and angels making music, Rome, Galleria Doria Pamphili
Last Judgment, Munich, Alte Pinakothek
Madonna and Child (under Gherardo Starnina), Florence, Uffizi Gallery , inv. 1890 no.6270

Web links

Master of the Bambino Vispo Biography (English at arts.jrank.org)

Individual evidence

^ Osvald Sirén : Di alcuni pittori fiorentini che subirono l'influenza di Lorenzo Monaco. Il Maestro del Bambino Vispo. In: L'Arte. Vol. 7, 1904, ISSN 0004-3362 , pp. 349-352.
↑ Osvald Sirén: A late Gothic Poet of Line (Continued). Later period. In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Vol. 25, No. 133, April 1914, ISSN 0951-0788 , pp. 15-24.
↑ Miklos Boskovits: Il Maestro del Bambino Vispo: Gherardo Starnina o Miguel Alcañiz? In: Paragone. Arte . Vol. 26, No. 307, 1975, ISSN 1120-4737 , pp. 3-15.
↑ Jeanne van Waadenoijen: A proposal for Starnina: Exit the Maestro del Bambino Vispo? In: The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 116, No. 851, February 1974, ISSN 0007-6287 , pp. 82-91.
↑ Cornelia Syre: Studies on the “Maestro del Bambino Vispo” and Starnina (= Habelt's dissertation prints. Art history series. H. 4). Habelt, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7749-1657-8 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1977).
↑ Gloria Fossi: Uffizi Gallery. Official guide of all works. Giunti, Florence 2001, ISBN 88-09-01949-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Master of the Bambino Vispo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Master of the lively baby Jesus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Gothic painter
DATE OF BIRTH	14th Century
DATE OF DEATH	15th century

[1] Osvald Sirén : Di alcuni pittori fiorentini che subirono l'influenza di Lorenzo Monaco. Il Maestro del Bambino Vispo. In: L'Arte. Vol. 7, 1904, ISSN 0004-3362 , pp. 349-352.

[2] Osvald Sirén: A late Gothic Poet of Line (Continued). Later period. In: The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs. Vol. 25, No. 133, April 1914, ISSN 0951-0788 , pp. 15-24.

[3] Miklos Boskovits: Il Maestro del Bambino Vispo: Gherardo Starnina o Miguel Alcañiz? In: Paragone. Arte . Vol. 26, No. 307, 1975, ISSN 1120-4737 , pp. 3-15.

[4] Jeanne van Waadenoijen: A proposal for Starnina: Exit the Maestro del Bambino Vispo? In: The Burlington Magazine. Vol. 116, No. 851, February 1974, ISSN 0007-6287 , pp. 82-91.

[5] Cornelia Syre: Studies on the “Maestro del Bambino Vispo” and Starnina (= Habelt's dissertation prints. Art history series. H. 4). Habelt, Bonn 1979, ISBN 3-7749-1657-8 (also: Freiburg (Breisgau), university, dissertation, 1977).

[6] Gloria Fossi: Uffizi Gallery. Official guide of all works. Giunti, Florence 2001, ISBN 88-09-01949-0 .