Spitz master

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As pointed Master ( Engl. Spitz master) is a medieval illuminators referred ranging from about 1415 to 1440 in France , probably first in Paris , worked. The artist, who is not known by name, got its emergency name from a book of hours that is now called “Spitz Hours” after an owner in modern times. The work is stylistically close to the work of the Limbourg brothers , so the master has adopted some of their motifs so clearly that his training or activity can be assumed in their workshop or in the immediate vicinity of the brothers. The Spitz master contributed 18 of the 22 pictures to the manuscript of the “Spitz Hours” , the other four come from the master of Harvard Hannibal and the master of Guy de Laval , two other illuminators. These three illuminators, who are not known by name, are also said to have worked together on some other works mainly attributed to the Spitz master.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Book of Hours, Paris around 1420. (Spitz Hours, Horæ ad usum Romanum, Los Angeles, Getty Museum, MS 57, 94.ML.26)

literature

  • Eberhard König: French illumination around 1450: the Jouvenel painter, the painter of the Geneva Boccaccio and the beginnings of Jean Fouquet . Berlin 1982
  • Master of the Harvard Hannibal . In: Oxford Grove Art. The Concise Grove Dictionary of Art. Oxford 2002
  • Gregory T. Clark: The Spitz Master. A Parisian Book of Hours (Getty Museum Studies on Art). Los Angeles 2003
personal data
SURNAME Spitz master
BRIEF DESCRIPTION medieval illuminator
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 15th century