Master of Offida
As Master of Offida ( it. Maestro di Offida) is a painter of the mid-14th century in Italy called. The artist, who is not known by name, got his emergency name after frescoes that he created in churches in Offida in the province of Ascoli Piceno . According to inscriptions, they are dated to 1367.
Other fresco paintings in the Marche and Abruzzo region are attributed to the master, who is stylistically related to Giotto . Their spread shows the reputation of the master who wandered from commissioning site to commissioning site. Works attributed to the master and partly to his workshop can be found, for example, in
- Santi Vincenzo e Anastasio Church (Crypt), Ascoli Piceno
- San Tommaso Church, Ascoli Piceno
- Santa Maria Assunta Cathedral, Atri
- San Michele Arcangelo Church, Città Sant'Angelo
- S. Giovanni Church, Monterubbiano
- Church of San Francesco, Montefiore dell'Aso
- Santa Maria della Rocca church, Offida
- San Marco Convent, Offida
- Cathedral of San Berardo in Teramo
The frescoes were identified as his work by comparing styles and because of a depiction of halos typical of the master .
It is believed that the master of Offida was a monk.
Individual evidence
- ↑ e.g. R. Willemsen et al. (Ed.) DUMONT KUNST TRAVEL GUIDE Abruzzo, Molise: Romanesque abbeys, defiant forts and baroque churches between the high mountains and the Adriatic coast. Ostfildern 2006, p. 86
Web links
- Frescoes by the Master of Offida in Santa Maria della Rocca (picture and Italian description on the website of the city of Offida)
literature
- F. Bologna: Percorso del Maestro di Offida. In: Institut di storia dell'arte Napoli (ed.): Studi di storia dell'arte in memoria di Mario Rotili. Naples 1984
- F. Abbat: Storia dell'arte nell'Italia meridionale 2 - Il Sud angionino e aragonese. Rome 1998
- A. Tartuferi: Qualche osservazione sul Maestro di Offida e alcuni appunti sulla pittura del Trecento nell'Abruzzo teramano. In: Arte Cristiana 88/799, 2000, pp. 249-258
- S. Papetti: Un artista itinerante fra le Marche e l'Abruzzo: il Maestro di Offida. In: Enrico Menestò (ed.): Le vie e la civiltà dei pellegrinaggi nell'Italia centrale. Spoleto 2000