Master of the Hartford Still Life

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Table laden with flowers and fruits
Flowers, fruits, vegetables and 2 lizards
Still life with birds
Still life with a vase and flowers

As a master of the Hartford still life or Master of Hartford one is Italian painter of the Baroque refers to the 1590/1610 in Rome worked. The artist, who specializes in lush still lifes , is like the master of the Acquavella still lifes as a representative of the “natura morta” of his epoch, a style that pointed to the transience of being, the memento mori , with baroque symbols .

Naming

The unknown master of the Hartford still life got his emergency name after his still life with a table laden with flowers and fruit, which is kept in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. By comparing styles, further works could be assigned to the master grouped around this picture.

Style and identification

In the style of the master of Hartford still life one can recognize echoes of Caravaggio . Assumptions that the master is supposed to be the young Caravaggio himself are admissible, since he, like him, B. paints the incidence of light, but he will probably - if at all - have been his pupil.

The following artists are suggested as the true identities of the Hartford still life master : Francesco Zucchi, Bernardino Cesari or Giovanni Battista Crescenzi .

Works (selection)

The master of the Hartford still life painted in oils on canvas. There are z. B. the following pictures counted to his work.

  • Table laden with flowers and fruits , around 1610/1620. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
  • Still life with a vase and flowers , around 1610. Pinacoteca Communale, Spoleto
  • Flowers, fruits, vegetables and 2 lizards , before 1607. Galleria Borghese , Rome
  • Still life with birds , before 1607. Borghese Gallery , Rome
  • Figs on a bowl (tazza) with grape leaves , around 1605. Private ownership
  • Still life with fruits , around 1650. museum kunst palast , Düsseldorf

literature

  • M. Gregori, JG Prince v. Hohenzollern (Ed.): Stille Welt - Italian Still Life, Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi . Milan (Electa) 2002 (exhibition catalog for the exhibition in the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, December 2002 - February 2003 and Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, June 26 - October 12, 2003, under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Cultural Property of the Republic of Italy )
  • E. Zafran, J. et al. M. Ringling: Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art . New Haven (Yale University Press) 2004

Web links

Commons : Masters of Hartford Still Life  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ M. Gregori, JG Prinz v. Hohenzollern (Ed.): Stille Welt - Italian Still Life, Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi . Milan 2002
  2. ↑ cf. A. Cottino: “Le Origini e lo sviluppo della natura morta barocca a Roma”, Natura morta italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento. In: M. Gregori, JG Prinz v. Hohenzollern (Ed.): Stille Welt - Italian Still Life, Arcimboldo, Caravaggio, Strozzi. Milan 2002, pp. 351-352
  3. ^ BS Mason: Millionaire's Market (The International Fine Art Fair, May 10-15, 2002, New York) . artnet.com 2002 (Accessed April 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Hartford Still Life
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of Hartford
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century