Master from the Metropolitan Museum

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As Master of the Metropolitan Museum ( Engl. Master of the Metropolitan Museum) is an unnamed known baroque painter referred to the late 17th century in Italy worked. Still lifes with flowers and fruits in decorated bowls are mainly attributed to him. It was probably based in Rome .

In the pictures of the master from the Metropolitan Museum , the message of “natura morta” is encoded, a direction of baroque art in Italy in actually magnificent still lifes and in baroque symbolic language the transience of being, the memento mori to convey. Like the still lifes of another Italian Baroque painter who also worked in Rome, the master of the Acquavella still lifes, and as in the works of the master of Hartford still life , who also worked in northern Italy, the work of the master is also from the Metropolitan Museuman example of how the genre of the still life developed in the north of Italy in an opulent formal language. The Italian style differs from the more restrained depiction of still lifes with the same “morbid” message of impermanence, which was also created in the Netherlands. These differences attracted z. B. contemporary Dutch representatives of such a painting style as Abraham Brueghel to Rome in the environment of the master and his Italian contemporaries.

The Metropolitan Museum Master is named after one of the works attributed to him in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . The choice of this note name is confusing, as other works by unknown painters are exhibited in this museum. However, his emergency name is widely recognized in the English-speaking art world. Several other works were ascribed to the master, which, due to an interest in still lifes of his era, ended up in other private collections through public auctions. These are, for example, pictures with titles such as melon, peach, figs, mulberries, plums with cloves on a stone step or still life with fruits and two putti in a castle park .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. A. Cottino: Le Origini e lo sviluppo della natura morta barocca a Roma, Natura morta italiana tra Cinquecento e Settecento . In: M. Gregori et. al: Natura Morte, Electa 2002, pp. 351-352
  2. ↑ cf. Xander van Eck: On 17th century Roman still life painting: Michelangelo da Campidoglio, Abraham Brueghel and the Master of the Metropolitan Museum. In: Paragone Arte 40, 1989, 469 = NS 14, pp. 80-86
  3. ↑ Master of the Metropolitan, A melon, peaches, figs, mulberries, plums and carnations on a step on a rocky ledge. Sold by Christie's London auction house, July 2003, lot 85
  4. ↑ Master of the Metropolitan, Still Life with Fruit and Two Putti in a Castle Park. Sold through the Old Masters Art Auction - 1852, Dorotheum March 1998 Lot 22
personal data
SURNAME Master from the Metropolitan Museum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century or 18th century