Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza

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Life of Saint Roch cycle - Museo del Paesaggio (Verbania)
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As a Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza ( it. Maestro di San Rocco a Pallanza ), an Italian painter of the early Renaissance called. The artist, who is not known by name, was probably active in Milan and the region around Lake Maggiore around 1475 .

The master created a cycle of frescoes on the life of St. Roch for the Oratorio di San Rocco in Pallanza on Lake Maggiore, which was built next to the Church of Madonna di Campagna on the occasion of the plague in 1344. After the oratorio was broken off around 1879, his Rochus pictures, transferred to canvas, were first taken to the neighboring church, and finally in 1914 to the Museo del Paesaggio in what is now Verbania , where Pallanza has meanwhile been absorbed. After the work from the Oratorio di San Rocco, the master received his emergency name in modern times .

The style and choice of perspective in the paintings of the Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza suggests that he met the Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante, who were also active in Milan at the time . Together with other indications, this similarity of style is also used to date the master's works.

A few other panel paintings are ascribed to the Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza and are now in the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania, in the Art Museum in Princeton and in private ownership.

literature

  • L. Calderari, A. Meregalli, P. Pedrioli: Giovanni Pietro e Giovanni Ambrogio De Donati, pittore lombardo e Maestro di San Rocco a Pallanza . In: F: Tasso u. a. (Eds.): Giovanni Pietro e Giovanni Ambrogio De Donati. Scultori e imprenditori del legno nella Lombardia del Rinascimento. Milan 2010, pp. 55-68, 199-212.
  • E. Villata: Il maestro di San Rocco a Pallanza: risarcimento di una scheda con una noterella sul maestro dei santi Cosma e Damiano a Como . In: Fimantiquari 10, 2002, 28/29, pp. 64-71.

Web links

Commons : Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ San Rocco in verbanensia.org (Italian retrieved on September 5, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Master of Saint Roch in Pallanza
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century