Master of Ambierle

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As a master of Ambierle ( fr. Maître d'Ambierle ), the painter from the workshop of Rogier van der Weyden with a provisional names referred to the 1466 finished images of the Passion altar of the church of St. Martin in Ambierle in the region around Lyon has created . The paintings in oil on wood by this unknown artist, which were completed shortly after van der Weyden's death, are the wings of a multi-part altar, the carved middle section of which, when open, depicts scenes from the Passion of Christ with more than 50 figures.

The wings of the Altar of Ambierle

Grisailles of four saints and a scene of the Annunciation decorate the outside of the wings of the altar, so these pictures of the Master of Ambierle can be seen in his closed state. When open, the wings surround the central part with its colored images of saints like Barbara. Furthermore, two painted smaller angel figures can be seen on the inside above the carved parts. The donor of the altar with the Archangel Michael is depicted on one of the right wings .

Benefactor

Ambierle is located in the French region of Forez , which was part of the Lyonnais region in the Middle Ages . According to an inscription, the altar was donated by Michel de Chaugy , an adviser to Philip III. , Duke of Burgundy and Count of Flanders. This explains the origin of the entire altar from a workshop in Flanders , because there is evidence that de Chaugy worked for Philip in Brussels, commissioned the altar there around 1460/1466 and then bequeathed it to the church in Ambierle in 1476 in his will.

identification

An attempt was made to recognize the hand of Rogier van der Weyden himself in the master of Ambierle and possibly even to ascribe the wooden figures and their painting to him. Although van der Weyden was able to have received the commission for the altar himself, the altar is usually assigned to other artists. Van Weyden had built up a prosperous workshop in Brussels until his death, which after his death, presumably under the leadership of his son Pieter, completed the outstanding works and continued to supply the great demand for pictures in the style of his father. The master from Ambierle certainly did his part in processing the orders. It has been suggested to identify him with Vrancke van der Stock (1420–1495).

Web links

  • The Master of Ambierl ( Le Maître d'Ambierle ) - Picture of the inside and outside of the altar of Ambierl on the tourism portal (Portail régional) of the Forez region (French text)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. B. Jacques Dupont: Le Retable d'Ambierle. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 6e Période, Vol. 20, 1938, ISSN  0016-5530 , pp. 277-288, here p. 281 , or Martine Vivier: Le retable de la Passion d'Ambierle. Syndicat d'initiative, Ambierle 1986.
  2. ^ Karl Voll: The old Dutch painting from Jan van Eyck to Memling. An attempt at evolutionary history. Poeschel & Kippenberg, Leipzig 1906.
  3. ↑ see e.g. B. Robert Didier: Les retables sculptés des anciens Pay-Bas importés en France. In: Christiane Prigent (ed.): Art et société en France au XVe siècle. Maisonneuve & Larose, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-7068-1399-7 , pp. 557-570.
  4. ↑ see also Eveline Schlumberger: Le admirable retable d'Ambierle rétabli à sa place originelle. In: Connaissance des arts. No. 155, 1965, ISSN  0395-5893 , pp. 22-28.
  5. ↑ see Alfred Maskell: Wood Sculpture. Methuen, London 1911, after Louis Maeterlinck: Rogier van der Weyden Sculpteur. In: Gazette des Beaux-Arts. 3e Période, Vol. 26, 532ème Livraison, 1901, pp. 265-284 , 533ème Livraison, pp. 399-411 .
  6. ↑ Marc Rudolf de Vrij: Vrancke van der Stockt en het retabel van Ambierle. In: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Jaarboek. 1998, ISSN  0770-3104 , pp. 209-231.
personal data
SURNAME Master of Ambierle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maître d'Ambierle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval painter
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century or 16th century