Master of the Cassone Adimari

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Cassone Adimari, around 1420/1450, Galleria dell'Accademia, Firenze

As a master of Cassone Adimari ( it. Maestro del Cassone Adimari) of the painters of the Italian is early Renaissance refers to the beginning or middle of the 15th century painted a panel picture that the wedding procession of a Florentine shows patrician family.

The picture is said to represent the wedding of Boccaccio degli Adimari and Lisa da Ricasoli in 1420. It is widely believed that the picture, painted in tempera on wood, was part of a cassone , a wedding chest of the kind used as a wedding gift among wealthy families in Florence at the time. Hence the picture is mostly referred to as the Cassone Adimari .

In an elegant and splendid wedding scene, the master of Cassone Adimari shows the procession of five couples whose rich clothes he painted with great care from precious fabrics. He paints servants and musicians in typical clothes and in the background typical buildings from the Florence of his time are clearly recognizable. The master painted the detailed painting in an almost late Gothic style.

The Cassone Adimari is now in the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence. It was to be found in travel guides early in modern times and is still considered one of the sights in Florence today. The clothes shown, the tapestries shown and the arrangement of the people are often cited because of their attention to detail to illustrate the furnishings and wedding culture of the Florentine patricians of the early Renaissance.

As a cassone panel, it was first exhibited as the work of an undetermined Florentine artist. Then the artist, who was not known by name, was given his emergency name as the Master of Cassone Adimari and he was subsequently assigned an extensive series of other works, including numerous other Cassone panels. Some of these works were then outsourced and attributed to a master of Fucecchio .

Whether the Master of Cassone Adimari actually represents the Adimari festival of 1420, as stated in sources from the 18th century, is not entirely certain, because his advanced style points to the time of painting around 1450. It is also not entirely certain whether the picture was a cassone board or was not a mural after all, since it is quite large in size with about 63 cm high and 280 cm wide. Murals with weddings, so-called Spallieri, were, like Cassoni, part of the decor of wealthy town houses in Florence.

After further art historical analyzes it was assumed that the master of Cassone Adimari is identical with the painter Giovanni di Ser, known as Lo Scheggia . This was the brother of the painter Tommaso di Ser, called Masaccio , who is considered one of the most important Italian painters of the Florentine early Renaissance. The proposal is now widely recognized in art history and the Adimari Cassone is exhibited under the name Giovanni di Sers.

Individual evidence

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  7. ^ Ernst Förster : Handbook for travelers in Italy. Műnchen 1840, p. 287.
  8. ^ Roberto Longhi (Andrea Ronchi): Primizie di Lorenzo da Viterbo. In: Vita artistica 1 (1926), p. 113.
  9. ^ Georg Pudelko: Studies on Domenico Veneziano. In: Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz 4, 1934, p. 163f .; R. Van Marle: The development of the Italian schools of painting, XVI. The Hague 1937, pp. 190-196.
  10. ↑ Marco Lastri: L'Osservatore Fiorentino sugli edifici della sua patria, per servire alla storia della medesima . Volume 1 (Third edition of the 1776 edition). Florence 1821, p. 100.
  11. ^ Paul Schubring: Cassoni, chests and chest pictures of the Italian early Renaissance. A contribution to profane painting in the Quattrocento . Leipzig 1915, p. 84.
  12. ↑ Franca Falletti, Marcella Anglani (ed.): Galleria dell'Accademia Guida ufficiale: tutte le opere . Florence 1999, p. 45.
  13. ↑ Luciano Bellosi, D. Lotti, Matteoli: Mostra d'arte sacra della diocesi di San Miniato . San Miniato, 1969, pp. 56-57.
  14. ↑ Franca Falletti, Marcella Anglani (ed.): Galleria dell'Accademia Guida ufficiale: tutte le opere . Florence 1999, p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Cassone Adimari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Painter in Florence
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century