Master of Forli

The Master of Forli ( Italian: Maestro di Forli) is an unknown painter of the Trecento who worked between 1280 and 1340 in Forlì , in the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. The master is named after some of his paintings that are now in the Pinacoteca civica di Forlì. It is believed that the master came from Forli. In his painting style, he is still committed to an old tradition that still follows the formalism of Byzantine art . This tradition can also be found, for example, with the Master of Faenza , who worked between 1260 and 1280 and was possibly the teacher of the Master of Forli. In the style of the master of Forli, however, the influence of more recent paintings from Ferrara , Ravenna , Rimini and above all from Venice can be seen . He begins a more vivid representation of the characters. In Rimini, the master of Forli could also have received impulses from Giotto , who worked there around 1300.

A few works can be attributed to the master of Forli:

• Flagellation of Christ , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, inv. 1975.1.79 (Robert Lehman Collection)
• Entombment of Christ , Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, inv. 1975.1.80 (Robert Lehman Collection)
• Descent from the Cross , Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya , Barcelona, ​​inv. No. 248 (1930.71) (Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection)
• Crucifixion with four saints , Pinacoteca civica di Forlì, Forli
• Death of Mary , Pinacoteca civica di Forlì, Forli

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
• Giordano Viroli: La Pinacoteca Civica di Forlì . Forli 1980
• John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy: The Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I. Italian Paintings . New York 1987
• Miklós Boskovits, Françoise Pouncey Chiarini (eds.): Early Italian Painting 1290-1470 The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection . London 1990

Web links

• Crucifixion with four saints , Pinacoteca civica di Forlì (accessed December 2011)
• Descent from the Cross , Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
• Entombment of Christ , The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Flagellation of Christ , The Metropolitan Museum of Art