Master of the Prodigal Son

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The parable of the prodigal son
Christ and his disciples on the way to Emmaus

With Master of the Prodigal Son , a painter is High Renaissance called. The artist, who is not known by name, was active in Antwerp around 1530 or 1560. He got his emergency name after his picture of the feast for the returning son, a motif from the parable of the prodigal son .

Style and workshop

Red, green and yellow are used in the paintings of the Master of the Prodigal Son in an unmistakable way. There are copies of his paintings from the Renaissance in good quality, which suggests the operation of a larger workshop. For example, his contemporary Ambrosius Benson did a little earlier in Bruges to deliver a series of pictures for the growing bourgeois market.

identification

It has been suggested that the Master of the Prodigal Son could be identical to Jan Mandijn , Lenaert Kroes, or even Anthonis de Palermo.

Works

  • The parable of the prodigal son, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • Christ and his disciples on the way to Emmaus

Attributed to:

  • Judith with the head of Holofernes, Madrid, Museo del Prado
  • Allegory of the wages of virtue and the punishment of vice. Munich, Alte Pinakothek
  • Pieta, London, National Gallery

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hijo Pródigo, Maestro del . In: Enciclopedia online - MUSEO DEL PRADO , accessed January 2010 (Spanish)
  2. ↑ cf. G. Marlier: L'Atelier du Maître du Fils Prodigue . In: Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Antwerp 1961, p. 75ff.
  3. ↑ G. Ring: The master of the prodigal son: Jan Mandyn and Lenaert Kroes. In: Yearbook for Art History. 1923, pp. 196-201

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SURNAME Master of the Prodigal Son
BRIEF DESCRIPTION High Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th century or 17th century