Master with the dice

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Master with the Cube: Apollo and Marsyas (copper engraving), Italy, 16th century

A copper engraver from Italy , who drew the works ascribed to him with a small cube and the letter B (V) on it, is called a master with the cube ( French: Maître au Dé ; Italian : Maestro del dado ) . The master, not known by name, was probably active in Rome in the first half of the 16th century.

Work and style

The master with the cube joins the working method of the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi (* 1480; † 1534) and stabbed mainly after pictures by Raphael and also z. B. after Giulio Romano or Baldassare Peruzzi . The master's engravings and their distribution show the high productivity in Raimondi's workshop, the quality of their output and great craftsmanship in the distribution of pictures of Raphael's work. More than 85 tricks of the master with the die are listed.

Attempts at identification

Originally sought to be identified as Nicolas Beatrizet (* 1515; † 1565) or Benedetto Verino (* 1512; † 1570), the master with the cube is now usually considered to be probably identical to Tommaso Vincidor (* 1493; † 1536), an assistant to Raphael seen. However, all attempts at identification are controversial.

Web links

Commons : Master with the Cube  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. von Bartsch: Le peintre graveur, Volume 15 Le Graveurs de l'ecole de Marc-Antoine Raimondi . Vienne, Degen 1813, p. 227.
  2. ^ Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, form cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Fleischmann, Munich 1835, p. 338.
  3. ↑ Dé, le Maître au . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 4. Leipzig 1906, p. 557
  4. ↑ S. z. BH Thode: The antiquities in Marcanton's, Agostino Veneziano's and Marco Dente's engravings . Leipzig, EA Seemann 1881
  5. ↑ L. Zentai: Three copperplate engravings by the “Master with the Cube”: reflections on subjects by Baldassare Peruzzi . In: Meeting reports / Art History Society of Berlin. New Series, Volume 33 (1984/85), 1983, pp. 16-18
  6. ↑ See Nicolas Beatrizet on this . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon or news of the life and works of painters, sculptors, builders, engravers, shape cutters, lithographers, draftsmen, medalists, ivory workers, etc. Munich, Fleischmann 1835, p. 338.
  7. ↑ So z. B. Engraving . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 11. Leipzig 1907, pp. 840-844
  8. ↑ Master of the Die . In: The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2002
personal data
SURNAME Master with the dice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maestro del dado (Italian); Maestro nel dado; Maître au dé (French); Master of the Die (English); Master B in the Die; Master with the Dice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian engraver
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century