The Master of 1310 was an Italian painter active in
Pistoia
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at the end of the 13th into the beginning of the fourteenth century.
His name is derived from an altarpiece depicting the ''Madonna and Child with Angels and the Commandant Filippo Paci'', today held in the Grand Palais in
Avignon
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and dated to 1310. Stylistically, this painting shows a heavy
French Gothic
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influence. A series of
fresco
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s in the church of
San Giovanni Fuoricivitas
San Giovanni Fuoricivitas (also called San Giovanni Evangelista Fuorcivitas or ''Forcivitas'') is a Romanesque religious church and adjacent buildings in Pistoia, Tuscany, central Italy. The adjective ''fuoricivitas'' (a mix of Italian and Latin m ...
in Pistoia, dated to 1307, is also ascribed to him; this depicts the story of the
Passion in fairly
expressionistic
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terms. Another altarpiece, a ''Madonna and Child with Saints'' on the high altar of the church of
Mary Magdalene
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in the
convent
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of the
Humiliati
The Humiliati (Italian ''Umiliati'') were an Italian religious order of men formed probably in the 12th century. It was suppressed by a papal bull in 1571 though an associated order of women continued into the 20th century.
Origin
The origin of ...
in Pistoia, today in its Civic Museum, has been ascribed to his late period.
The attribution to him of a pair of frescoes in the same city's church of
Saint Dominic
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, painted in the 1430s, has been contested.
13th-century births
14th-century deaths
14th-century Italian painters
1310, Master of
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