Master of Budapest

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Master of Budapest: Christ on the Cross, around 1500 (Spanish)

A High Gothic Spanish painter is called the Master of Budapest ( sp. Mestre de Budapest ) . The artist, not known by name, was active in the Kingdom of Castile around 1500 . His style is typical of the painters of the kingdom influenced by contemporary Flemish painters or sometimes even trained by Flemings who immigrated to Spain. The master already shows the influences of the transition to the Renaissance in Spain, a style that his contemporary, the master of Astorga, also developed.

The unnamed Master of Budapest is today after the created by him at the Museum of Fine Arts (Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum) in Budapest in Hungary preserved plants named . The master is now and then also referred to as the Budapest master .

Works (selection)

  • Christ on the Cross , Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (center shrine of a polyptych consisting of five panels)
  • Presentation of Mary in the Temple , Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • A holy bishop , Magyar Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
  • Christ carries the cross , private property
  • Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence , Museo de Burgos, Burgos

literature

  • Marianna Takács-Haraszti: Oeuvres de maîtres espagnols du XVe siècle en Hongrie. In: Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts. Vol. 38, 1972, pp. 23-59 (French).
  • Marianna Takács-Haraszti: Maîtres espagnols. 2. édition revue et corrigée. Éditions Corvina, Budapest 1970 (Szépművészeti Múzeum / Musée des beaux-arts de Budapest, French).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. see: Chandler Rathfon Post: A History of Spanish Painting. Vol. 9: The Beginning of the Renaissance in Castile and Leon. 2 parts. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 1947 (Reprinted. Kraus, New York NY 1970).
  2. ↑ assigned by I. Mateos for auction house Christies, Sale 5823, July 1997, London, lot 317
personal data
SURNAME Master of Budapest
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mestre de Budapest; Budapest master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION High Gothic Spanish painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century