Master from 1487

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As champion of 1487 is a Renaissance painters from northern Italy called. The artist, who is not known by name, painted small-format pictures around 1487 that glorify conjugal love, loyalty and virtue with mythological depictions from antiquity such as the Argonauts legend. The relationship between Jason and Medea was a popular motif in such paintings, and paintings with this and similar loyalty themes were mostly commissioned by wealthy families in cities like Florence for a wedding. They were then used to decorate the bedrooms of the newly married couple.

Well-known painters such as Botticelli or Lo Scheggia or the less well-known master of Stratonike painted such wedding pictures. The master from 1487, on the other hand, is hardly known and worked on in the professional world. It shows the influence of the style of Domenico Ghirlandaio and Lorenzo di Credi . Pietro del Donzello (1452–1509) from Florence is often seen as his true identity today .

The master of 1487 is to be distinguished from the painter who is also not known by name and is named by the art history of the Basel Master of 1487 . His pictures, which were still influenced by the Middle Ages, can be found in the public art collection in Basel , for example . The possibly confusing names of two masters with the epithet 1487 illustrate the problems that naming artists with an emergency name created according to the year can cause.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Gardner: An Unusual Renaissance Portrait . The Wall Street Journal December 23, 2008 (after the online edition)

literature

  • Alfred Scharf: The Robinson Collection . In: The Burlington Magazine 100/666 (1958) pp. 299-304
  • Anne B. Barriault: Spalliera Paintings of Renaissance Tuscany . Pennsylvania 1994.
  • Andrea Bayer (Ed.): Art and Love in Renaissance Italy (catalog for the exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art). New York 2008
  • Sotheby's auction house: Highly Important Old Master and British Paintings from the Collection of Sir Joseph Robinson. Catalog of the auction December 6, 1989 . London 1989
  • Caroline Campbell: Lorenzo Tornabuoni's History of Jason and Medea series. Chivalry and classicism in 1480s Florence . In: Renaissance Studies 21/1 (2007), pp. 1–19
personal data
SURNAME Master from 1487
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pietro del Donzello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century