The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active 1500 – 1520) was a Flemish painter in the style of Antwerp Mannerism, whose compositions are typically filled with agitated figures in exotic, extravagant clothes. His notname is from a triptych showing the Adoration of the Magi, acquired by the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts.
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He was active in Antwerp. He was identified by Max J. Friedlander as the same person as the Master of Linnich.[1] Little else is known.[1] Despite various attempts to match him to recorded names of artists of the time, a leading scholar described the question of his identity in 2007 as "still up in smoke".[2]
Works
editApart from the Antwerp triptych, another with the same main subject in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) is by the master,[3] and Peter Van Den Brink suggests a large triptych altarpiece on the basis of several fragments.[4] Several other works have been attributed.[1]
Notes
editReferences
edit- Van Den Brink, Peter. "A Shattered Jigsaw Puzzle: On a Partly Reconstructed Altarpiece by the Master of the Antwerp Adoration", Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 68 (2007): 161–80. Accessed December 31, 2020. JSTOR