Master of the Holy Blood

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A painter from Flanders around 1520 is known as the Master of the Holy Blood ( French Maître du Saint Sang , Flemish Meester van het Heilige Bloed ) . He painted a triptych for the Heilig-Blut-Kirche (fr. Saint Sang, fl. Heilige Bloed) in Bruges, which gave the artist, sometimes also known as the Master of the Holy Blood Chapel, his name . The altarpiece depicts the Lamentation and Entombment of Christ and can now be found in the church's museum.

Act

The master of the holy blood is stylistically at the transition from the late Gothic to the Renaissance in Flanders. Far more than thirty works are assigned to him by comparing styles. In addition to the eponymous picture, these include other altarpieces in Bruges churches such as in Saint-Jean and numerous religious but also secular works that are today, for example, in the Groeninge Museum in Bruges, museums in Brussels, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich or the Academy of Fine Arts Find arts in Vienna . The secular works include a number of moralizing portraits such as a series of depictions of the chaste Lucretia, some of which are privately owned. In all of the pictures, the master succeeds in depicting a suffering patience in the faces of the main characters. However, the exact catalog of works of the master is examined further, since works assigned to him sometimes show greater quality differences in execution despite the same choice of theme and identical composition and could possibly be from the hand of his employees or other painting workshops.

The large number of pictures by the Master of the Holy Blood as well as no signs of great support from ecclesiastical or aristocratic clients suggest that the painter, like his Bruges contemporary Ambrosius Benson, worked for the emerging bourgeoisie in Flanders and also for the export market. The influence of his predecessor Hugo van der Goes can be seen in the working method of the Master of the Holy Blood and, above all, in the figure position based on the compositional technique of Gerard David , these main masters of old Dutch painting at the end of the 15th century both worked in Bruges . There are also elements of the more progressive painting style of Quentin Metsys or the Master of Frankfurt , which shows the master's knowledge of contemporary painting from the Antwerp area. It can be assumed that the master may have come to Bruges after an apprenticeship in Antwerp.

literature

  • G. Hulin de Loo (ed.): Exposition de Tableaux Flamandes de XIVe, Xve et XVIe siécles: Catalog critique. Bruges 1902 (French).
  • Maître du Saint-Sang . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 37 : Master with emergency names and monogramists . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1950, p. 297 .
  • G. Marlier: Ambrosius Benson et la peinture à Bruges au temps de Charles-Quint. Brussels 1957 (French).
  • Groeningemuseum (Ed.): Anonieme vlaamse primitieven: Zuidnederlandse meesters met noodnamen van de 15de en het begin van de 16de eeuw. Exhibition catalog, Bruges 1965 (Flemish).
  • Christiane van den Bergen-Pantens: Un oeuvre inédite du Maître du Saint-Sang (Le mariage mystique de Sainte Catherine). In: Handelingen van het Genootschap voor Geschiedenis Société d'Emulation. 103, doi: 10.21825 / hvgg.v113i1.4394 , February 28, 1976, pp. 230-246.
  • MJ Friedländer: Joos van Cleve, Jan Provost, Joachim Patenier. Leyden 1973.
  • Maître de Saint Sang. In: J.-P. Cuzin (Ed.): Larousse Dictionnaire de la Peinture. 1999 (French).
  • Maître du Saint Sang. In: Joost De Geest et al. (Ed.): 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge Du XVe siècle a nos jours. Brussels 2006, p. 288 (French).
  • S. Urbach: An unknown Netherlandish diptych attributed to the Master of the Holy Blood: a hypothetical reconstruction. In: Arte cristiana. 95, 2007, pp. 429-438 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ G. Hulin de Loo (ed.): Exposition de Tableaux Flamandes de XIVe, Xve et XVIe siécles: Catalog critique. Bruges 1902.
  2. ↑ Joost De Geest et al. (Ed.): 500 chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art belge Du XVe siècle a nos jours. Brussels 2006, p. 288 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ ( Maître du Saint Sang , Lucrèce. Picard auction, Audap, Solanet & Associés), lot 1, Paris March 2000.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Holy Blood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maître du Saint Sang; Master of the Heiligenblutkapelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1495
DATE OF DEATH around 1550