Master of Marradi

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Madonna and Child and the Archangels Gabriel and Raphael, Museo di arte sacra, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa

The Master of Marradi ( Italian : Maestro di Marradi) is a Renaissance painter in northern Italy who created numerous works in the period from around 1470 to 1513. The master painted images of the Madonna and saints and other paintings with Christian-religious themes. Some pictures with motifs from mythology and the history of antiquity are also attributed to him, especially pictures on cassoni , painted wedding chests of rich bourgeois families.

The artist, who is not known by name, was probably based in Tuscany , perhaps near Florence , and is named after his five works, which come from the Santa Reparata monastery, the Badia del Borgo, near Marradi . By comparing styles, numerous other works could then be assigned to him.

Stylistically, the master of Marradi was initially influenced by his contemporary Domenico Ghirlandaio , a Renaissance painter in Florence. The influence of Botticelli and Perugino , as well as his contemporaries, should then be recognizable in the master's later works .

Another contemporary of the master of Marradi was the master of Tavarnelle , a painter in Tuscany who also painted religious and secular pictures and, like the master, was a successor to Ghirlandaios.

Works (selection)

The first works by the master are dated to the time of Abbot Taddeo Adimari, a friend of Lorenzo il Magnifico . The five eponymous images from the Badia di Santa Reparata, including some depicting the patroness of the Reparata monastery and the founder of the abbey Johannes Gualbertus , are now in the church of San Lorenzo: in Marradi. They are:

  • Madonna with Child and Saints Benedict, Reparata, Johannes Gualbertus and Bernardo degli Uberti , (around 1498)
  • Saints Anthony, Sebastian and Lucia
  • Madonna of Mercy
  • Saint John Gualbertus
  • Altarpiece with Saint Reparata

A very extensive catalog of works could be attributed to the master of Marradi , including the following other religious pictures:

  • Madonna and Child and the Archangels Gabriel and Raphael , (1470/1480, from the Church of San Lorenzo in Cortine), Museo di arte sacra , Tavarnelle Val di Pesa
  • Annunciation , (1510), Chapel of the Seminary in Pesaro .
  • Madonna with Child and Saints (1512), Church of Santo Stefano in Palazzuolo sul Senio .
  • Madonna and Child Enthroned (1513), Santa Cristina Church, Montefiridolfi (near San Casciano in Val di Pesa )
  • Mandonna with Child and the Boy John Baptista , Ashmolean Museum , Oxford
  • Mandonna with child and the young Johannes Baptista and two angels , Musée du Petit Palais , Avignon
  • The temple treasure is brought to the House of God by Nebuchadnezzar , circa 1500, High Museum of Art , Atlanta, Georgia
  • Judith and Holofernes , circa 1500, Dayton Art Institute , Dayton, Ohio

Furthermore, the master could also be assigned works on Cassoni that were created between 1470 and 1510:

  • Rape of the Sabine Women and Reconciliation , Cassone, c. 1480, Harewood House , Leeds (from the Earl and Countess of Harewood collection)
  • History of the Teacher of Falerii , around 1500, National Gallery , London
  • The Triumph of Jason , private property

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christie's auction house, sale of 8750 Old Master Paintings; New York, October 16, 1997. Lot 28

literature

  • Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani (Ed.): Museo d'arte sacra di Tavarnelle Val di Pesa , Florence 2005, ISBN 88-8304-955-1
  • Everett Fahy: 'Some Early Italian Pictures in the Gambier-Parry Collection'. In: The Burlington Magazine, 109, (1967), p. 134
  • Everett Fahy: Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo , New York, London 1976
  • The Courtauld Gallery (Ed.): 10 Things you may want to know about Cassoni . Brief description of the exhibition Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florenxe - The Courtauld Wedding Chests , London 2009.
  • Cristelle L. Baskins: Cassone Painting, Humanism, and Gender in Early Modern Italy (Studies in New Art History and Criticism). Cambridge 1998
  • Livietta Galeotti Pedulli (Ed.): Alla scoperta del Maestro di Marradi . Florence 2009, ISBN 978-88-596-0655-0
  • Il Maestro di Marradi , publications of the Marradi Art Association - Comitato Culturale “Il Maestro di Marradi” - MARRADI (FI) - website (2011)

Web links

Commons : Master of Marradi  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Information about the artist on chiantimusei.it (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Master of Marradi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maestro di Marradi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century