The Master of the Bambino Vispo was a central-

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painter active in the early 15th century. In the early 20th century, the art historian

Osvald Sirén Osvald Sirén (6 April 1879 – 26 June 1966) was a Finnish-born Swedish art historian, whose interests included the art of 18th century Sweden, Renaissance Italy and China. Biography Sirén was born in Helsinki. He held the J.A. Berg Profe ...

identified a group of unsigned paintings as being by the same artist. Sirén designated the artist as the Master of the Bambino Vispo (Master of the Lively Child) due to the unusually lively expression and movement of baby Jesus in these paintings. The paintings Sirén wrote about are: * ''Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels'' in the

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in Florence, Italy (probably by Mariotto di Nardo) * Triptych of the ''Virgin and Child with Music-making Angels and Four Saints'' in the Galleria Doria Pamphili in Rome * ''Virgin of Humility'' in the

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* ''Mary Magdalene, St. Lawrence and a Cardinal Donor'' in the

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in Berlin. Three painters, Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano (active 1418–1422),

Parri Spinelli Parri Spinelli ( – 1453) was an Italian ( Tuscan) painter of the early renaissance who was born in the Province of Arezzo. His father and teacher was Spinello Aretino (1350–1410), who was active throughout Tuscany. Parri Spinelli lived i ...

(1387-ca. 1453), Miguel Alcanyis (active 1408–1447) and

Gherardo Starnina Gherardo Starnina (c. 1360–1413) was an Italian painter from Florence in the Quattrocento era. According to the biographer Giorgio Vasari, Starnina initially trained with Antonio Veneziano, then with Agnolo Gaddi. He is claimed to have part ...

(1354–1403), have each been credited with this body of paintings at one time or another. The preponderance of scholarly opinion currently favors

, who worked in Spain and then in Florence in the late 14th century.

External links

* El Paso Museum of Art, ''The Samuel H. Kress Collection'', El Paso, El Paso Museum of Art, 1961. * Sirén, Osvald, ''Early Italian Pictures, the University Museum, Göttingen (Conclusion). Lorenzo Monaco, Mariotto di Nardo, Parri Spinelli, and the Compagno di Agnolo'' in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 26, No. 141, Dec., 1914, 107–114. * Sirén, Osvald, ''Pictures by Parri Spinelli'' in The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 49, No. 282, Sep., 1926), 117–125. {{Authority control 15th-century Italian painters Italian Renaissance painters Bambino Vispo, Master of the Painters from Florence