Master of the Bargello Tondo

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Bargello tondo

A painter of the Italian Early Renaissance who probably worked in Florence between 1400 and 1450 is referred to as the master of the Bargello-Tondo or the master of the judgment of Paris in the Bargello .

The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after the desco da parto he painted , a midwife bowl that is kept in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence. A round picture (Italian: tondo) shows the judgment of Paris . The mythological theme of contemplation “about the consequences of instinctual life”, popular in the early Italian Renaissance, was “a suitable theme for this birth creator ... in the Florentine Bargello”. The master of the Bargello-Tondo painted other such valuable vessels that were given as gifts to wealthy patrician families. In them, women were given nutritious food to strengthen themselves after the birth of their child.

Since the well-known tondo is contained in the collection given to the city of Florence by Louis Carrand, the master of the Bargello tondo is sometimes also called the master of the Carrand tondo .

Works (selection)

A large list of works is attributed to the master of the Bargello-Tondo after the creation of a catalog of works had already begun in 1910 and his style was equated with that of the Florentine painter Francesco Pesellino (1422-1457).

  • deschi da parto
    • Judgment of Paris . Collection Carrand, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence
    • Young hunter hunting for falcons . Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
    • Robbery of Helena , private property
    • Susanna and the old people . Serristori Collection, Florence
  • Other works (paintings on wood)
    • St. Sebastian (under the blessing Christ) . Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon
    • Madonna and Child . Los Angeles County Museum ( LACMA inv.no.47.11.1 )
    • Madonna with child and saints, scenes from the life of Mary . Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
    • Angels making music . Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City
    • Annunciation . Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ English: Master of the Judgment of Paris in the Bargello
  2. ↑ cf. Raimond van Marle: The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings, Vol . 10 . Hacker Books, New York 1970, p. 199, fig. 129 (reprint of the Den Haag 1928 edition).
  3. ^ Richard Fremantle: Florentine Gothic Painters from Giotto to Masaccio . A guide to paintin in and near Florence, 1300 to 1450 . Secker & Warburg, London 1975, p. 597.
  4. ↑ Frank Büttner, Andrea Gottdang: Introduction to Iconography. Ways to interpret image content . CH Beck, Munich 2006, p. 189, ISBN 978-3-406-53579-6 .
  5. ↑ Desco da parto, midwife bowl . In: Peter W. Hartmannm: Das große Kunstlexikon (accessed online February 2010).
  6. ↑ see e.g. auction house Christie's London, December 1997, lot 59 (English)
  7. ^ Roger Fry : Burlington Magazine , Vol. 17 (1910), May, p. 126, ISSN  0007-6287 .
  8. ↑ Michel Laclotte, Elisabeth Mognetti: italienne Peinture . 3rd edition Editions RMN, Paris 1987, p. 141, ISBN 2-7118-2149-8 .
  9. ↑ a b c Enrica Neri Lusanna: Aspetti della cultura tardo-gotica a Firenze. Il Maestro del Giudizio di Paride . In: Arte cristiana / NS , Vol. 77 (1989), Issue 735, ISSN  0004-3400 .
  10. ^ Roberto Longhi : Ricerche su Giovanni di Francesco , Pinacotheca, 1, July-Aug. 1928, p. 35; Reprinted in Opere Complete, IV, Florence, 1968, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Bargello Tondo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Judgment of Paris in the Bargello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Florentine painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century