Master of the Good Samaritan

Master of the Good Samaritan (Meester van de Barmhartig Samaritaan): The Good Samaritan, 1537, owned by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

A painter at the beginning of the Renaissance is known as the Master of the Good Samaritan . The artist, who is not known by name, was active in the north of the Netherlands between 1500 and 1550 .

Naming

The Master of the Good Samaritan ( Dutch Meester van de Barmhartig Samaritaan) got his emergency name after the picture he created in 1537, which depicts the parable of the Good Samaritan from the New Testament . The picture is now in the possession of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam .

style

The Master of the Good Samaritan is understood as a collaborator or at least a successor to Jan van Scorel . As with Scorel, his paintings show the influence of a new painting style from Italy. The strange, hard painting style of the master can be seen as his typical distinguishing feature and his work can be distinguished from the Scorels and his other collaborators.

Works (selection)

• The Good Samaritan , 1537. Centraal Museum Utrecht (on loan from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. No. SK-A-3468)
• David kills Goliath , 1538. Landesmuseum Bonn

The attribution of further works is suggested from time to time in art history.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ so z. B. Landesmuseum Bonn (ed.): Exhibition project Renaissance am Rhein, 2010, memorandum . P. 10, Bonn 2009
2. ↑ cf. GJ Hoogewerff: De Noord-Nederlandsche Schilderkunst . Volume IV The Hague (Martinus Nijhoff) in 1941, which is now assigned to the Masters as first among Monogrammist Valenciennes describes
3. ↑ s. MJ Friedländer: The Old Dutch Painting Vol. 12: Pieter Coeck / Jan van Scorel . Berlin 1935, p. 201
4. ↑ z. BN Dacos: Roma Quanta Fuit: Tre Pittori Fiamminghi Nella Domus Aurea . Rom, Donzelli Editore 1995, p. 31 (Italian)

Web links

• Picture and description of the Good Samaritan , Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (English / Dutch, accessed online April 2010)
• Renaissance am Rhein, Memorandum ( Memento from May 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), image (on page 10) of the picture of the Master of the Good Samaritan: David kills Goliath, Landesmuseum Bonn (accessed online February 2015)