Master of the Imola Triptych
A medieval painter who worked in Italy in Emilia-Romagna from around 1410 to 1440 is referred to as the Master of the Triptych by Imola ( Italian: Maestro del Trittico di Imola) . The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after his picture of a Madonna and Child and the Saints Catherine and Peter, which came from the Cathedral of Imola . The triptych is now in the Museo di San Domenico, Pinacoteca Comunale. Typical of the master is his portrayal of a somewhat rounded baby Jesus and his almost naïve style of painting.
A few other pictures can be assigned to the master, including a Madonna and Child from 1420, now in the Pinacoteca Ferrara , and a small-format picture of a Madonna with Child and Angels from 1430, now in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts . Another work is in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
The master may have worked as a miniature painter in Ferrara under the rule of Niccolò III. d'Este , Marquis of Ferrara.
literature
- T. Kustodieva: Due primitivi all'Ermitage . In: Paragone. Arte , 30, pp. 71-74 (1979)
- C. Pedrini (Ed.): La Pinacoteca di Imola . Bologna 1988
- F. Zeri: Il Maestro del Trittico di Imola e la sua presenza a Ferrara . In: D. Benati (ed.): Il tempo di Nicolò III: gli affreschi del Castello di Vignola e la pittura tardogotica nei domini estensi. Modena 1988
- D. Benati: Pittori-miniatori a Ferrara: un caso. In: C. Acidini Luchinat, M. Boskovits u. a. (Ed.): Scritti per l'Istituto Germanico di Storia dell'Arte di Firenze: settanta studiosi italiani. Florence 1997. pp. 133-138
- C. Baroncini, L. Mazzini, O. Orsi, C. Pedrini (Eds.): Il Museo di San Domenico . Fusignano 2004
- A. Galli: Maestro del Trittico di Imola . In: M. Bollati A Cura Di (ed.): Dizionario biografico dei miniatori italiani. Milan 2004, pp. 674-675
Web links
- Paintings recently acquired by the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts , article (English) depicting one of the master's works. April 17, 2008