Master of Faenza

The Master of Faenza ( it. Maestro di Faenza) is a medieval painter who is unknown by name and who worked in the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy around 1280 . The master is named after some of his paintings that are now in the Pinacoteca Comunale of Faenza . The master is a contemporary of Cimabue ; A comparison shows that the master of Faenza still follows the traditional formalism of Byzantine art in his painting style .

The work Master of Faenza is an important example of the understanding of the development of art in Emilia-Romagna, where, compared to the area around Florence or Rimini, the early Renaissance and its replacement of a formulaic representation by a more lively representation of the figures and objects emerges a little later . These first signs of such detachment in the region can only be found, for example, with the Master von Forli , who also came from Emilia-Romagna and who was possibly a student of the Master of Faenza .

A few works can be attributed to the Master of Faenza :

• Crucifixion and Descent into the Realm of Death , Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza
• Nativity , Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna
• Descent from the Cross , Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna
• Lamentation of Christ , Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna

literature

• Edward B. Garrison: Italian Romanesque Panel Painting. An illustrated index . Florence 1949
• Edward B. Garrison: Il Maestro di Forlì . In: Rivista d'arte 26 (1950), pp. 61-81
• Anna Tambini: Pittura dall'alto medioevo al tardogotico nel territorio di Faenza e Forlì , (Quaderni della città e del territorio / 5). Faenza 1982
• Anna Tambini: Storia delle arti figurative a Faenza (Volume 1). Le origini . Faenza 2006

Web links

• Crucifixion and descent into the realm of death , Master of Faenza , illustration at Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza
• Nativity, Descent from the Cross, Lamentation of Christ , illustration at Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna