Master of the Georg Code

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Madonna Enthroned (around 1320), Louvre , Paris

As Master of the George Codex or Master of the Codex of St. Georg ( Italian Maestro del Codice di San Giorgio , French Maître du Codex de Saint Georges ) is called a painter of the Middle Ages , to whom several miniatures and panel paintings from 1310 and especially between 1339 and 1344 are attributed.

Naming

The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name from a manuscript that he painted around 1320. It is the Codex Vita Sancti Georgii martyris , a text on the legend of St. George . This legendary tale was written by the Italian Cardinal Jacopo Caetani degli Stefaneschi (* 1270; † 1343 in Avignon) when he was working at the papal court in Avignon in France from 1320 . The work is now in the library of the Vatican in Rome.

Life and style

The Master of the Code of St. Georg is said to have worked as an employee or in the vicinity of the painter Simone Martini , who came from Siena in Italy and then worked in Avignon in France . One of the miniatures on the life of St. George is said to have a now lost fresco by Martini as a model. Stylistically, the master is close to painting in the Siena of his time. The work of the master and his assumed activity in the environment of the Avignon School became the basis in art history of the thesis that international Gothic painting began with the encounter between Italian and French painting in Avignon. However, this proposal is not undisputed.

According to a different opinion, a connection of the Master of the Codex of St. George and the successors of Giotto's from Florence, especially since Giotto also received an order from Stefaneschi around 1330 and painted an altarpiece for the cardinal. This connection is seen as a sign that the master may not have worked in Avignon at all, but only in Italy.

Dealing with the master's work remains an important contribution in art history to understanding the beginning of International Gothic painting.

Works (selection)

Book illumination

The catalog of works by the Master of the Georg Codex includes the following book illuminations

  • Codex Historia de beati Georgii martiris miraculis, (Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, ms Captitolare San Pietro C 129).
  • Graduals from the Abbey of Sttimo, Rome, Santa Croce Church in Gerusalemme
  • Missale New York, Pierpont Morgan Library
  • Pontificale, Paris, National Library

Panel paintings

The catalog of works of the Master of the Georg Codex includes the following paintings

  • Madonna and Child enthroned under angels with saints. Musée du Louvre Paris
  • Christ crucified with donor of the picture (Cardinal Guilhem Peire Godin). Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
  • Crucifixion . Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York
  • Entombment . Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, New York
  • Noli me tangere . Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence Inv. 2017 C
  • Coronation of Mary . Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Inv. 2018 C
  • Annunciation . Palazzo Pubblico, Siena

literature

  • Giacomo De Nicola : L'Affresco di Simone Martini ad Avignone. In: L'Arte. 9, 1906, pp. 336-344.
  • Adolfo Venturi : Storia dell'arte italiana Volume 5: La pittura del trecento . Milan 1907, p.?.
  • Adolfo Venturi: Una tavoletta inedita del "Maestro del codice di San Giorgio". In: L'Arte 33, 1930, pp. 375-378.
  • Margaret B. Freeman: The Avignon Panels: a preliminary view. In: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 20, 1961/62, pp. 303-308.
  • John Howett: Two panels by the master of the St. George Codex in The Cloisters. In: Metropolitan Museum Journal 11, 1976, pp. 85-102.
  • Master of the Code of St. George . 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. 182-183 .
  • Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè Dal Poggetto: Il Maestro del Codice di San Giorgio e il cardinale Jacopo Stefaneschi. Florence 1981.
  • Miklós Boskovits : A critical and historical corpus of Florentine painting 3/9. The fourteenth century - The painters of the miniaturist tendency. Florence 1984, p.
  • J.-P. Cuzin (Ed.): Larousse Dictionnaire de la Peinture. 1999, p.
  • Milvia Bollati (ed.): Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani. Milan 2004, p.?.
  • Michel Laclotte, Esther Moench: Italian Peinture: Musée du Petit Palais Avignon. Avignon 2005, p.?.
  • Alessandro Tomei: Giotto e il Trecento. (Exhibition catalog Rome Complesso del Vittoriano 2009). Milan 2009, p.?.
  • Martin Gosebruch : Giotto and the illumination of the Dante time. In: Christina De Benedictis (ed.): Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Roberto Salvini. Florence 1984, pp. 183-189.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giacomo De Nicola: L'Affresco di Simone Martini ad Avignone. In: L'Arte 9, 1906, pp. 336-344.
  2. ↑ For literature on this see John Howett: Two panels by the master of the St. George Codex in The Cloisters. In: Metropolitan Museum Journal , 11, 1976, p. 85.
  3. ^ E.g. Erwin Panowsky: History of Early Netherlandish Paintings. Cambridge MA, Volume 1, p. 24.
  4. ↑ John Howett: Two panels by the master of the St. George Codex in The Cloisters. In: Metropolitan Museum Journal. 11, 1976, p. 85.
  5. ↑ J.-P. Cuzin (Ed.): Larousse Dictionnaire de la Peinture. Paris 1999.
  6. ↑ Maestro del Codice di san Giorgio. In: Università di Bologna, Fondazione Federico Zeri, On-Line Catalog 2003–2011, accessed August 2011; Larousse Dictionnaire de la Peinture. Paris 1999.
personal data
SURNAME Master of the Georg Code
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Master of the Codex of St. George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH 14th Century