Master of Alcira

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Master of Alcira: Allegory of Wisdom, Spain, around 1525

A painter from Renaissance Spain is referred to as the Master of Alcira ( Spanish Maestro de Alcira ) . The artist, unknown by name, was active in the region around Valencia at the beginning of the 16th century . It got its emergency name after the altar he created in 1527, which can be found in the church of San Augustin in the eastern Spanish city ​​of Alzira in the province of Valencia . The master should be a successor or student of Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina or Fernando de los Llanos . The Valencian Renaissance School (span. Escuela renacentista valenciana) was formed around these painters.

Works (selection)

  • Altar of the Church of San Agustín in Alcira (1527)

The following are also assigned to the master of Alcira :

  • Saint Michael (ca.1530), Museo de Bellas Artes , Valencia
  • Pieta with Saints John and María Magdalena , Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia
  • Allegory of Wisdom (approx. 1545–1550), Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum , Budapest
  • Allegory of Passion (approx. 1545–1550), Magyar Szépművészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • Transito o Dormicion de la Virgen (approx. 1527–1550), Casa de Orduñas, Guadalest

Web links

Commons : Maestro de Alcira  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ so z. BM Less (eds.): Greco, Velázquez, Goya. Spanish painting from German collections. Prestel, Munich 2005 (exhibition catalog of the cooperation: Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg; Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden 2005/2006).
  2. ↑ Alcira . In: J. Aydillo San Martín: Pueblos y apellidos de España: diccionario etimológico. Editorial Club Universitario, San Vincente 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Master of Alcira
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maestro de Alcira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish Renaissance painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century