Navity Master of the Prado Adoration of the Magi

The Master of the Prado Adoration of the Magi was a Netherlandish painter active between c. 1475 and 1500 whose identity is now lost. He is thought to have originated from the southern Netherlands and is known for his vibrant colourisation in panels depicting scenes from the infancy of Christ, he is thought to have been a pupil of

Rogier van der Weyden Rogier van der Weyden () or Roger de la Pasture (1399 or 140018 June 1464) was an early Netherlandish painter whose surviving works consist mainly of religious triptychs, altarpieces, and commissioned single and diptych portraits. He was highly ...

, and is named after a copy of the "

Adoration of the Magi The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, ...

" panel from that painter's '' St Columba Altarpiece''. Although the Magi became a popular topic for northern painters in the second half of the 15th century and the Columba altarpiece was widely copied, the master is associated with van der Weyden's workshop because the copy is so close, it is believed he must have had access to a reproduction of the underdrawing. Six panels are today associated to the master; five showing scenes from Christ's infancy and one of Saint Francis.Master of the Prado "Adoration of the Magi"
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Retrieved 16 march 2013. Two panels now in the

Burrell Collection The Burrell Collection is a museum in Glasgow, Scotland, managed by Glasgow Museums. It houses the art collection of Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell. The museum reopened on 29 March 2022 with free entry, having been closed for ...

in Glasgow, are assumed to be wings of a lost portable

triptych A triptych ( ; from the Greek adjective ''τρίπτυχον'' "''triptukhon''" ("three-fold"), from ''tri'', i.e., "three" and ''ptysso'', i.e., "to fold" or ''ptyx'', i.e., "fold") is a work of art (usually a panel painting) that is divided ...

. All six works had been attributed by art historian

Georges Hulin de Loo Georges Hulin de Loo (10 December 1862, in Ghent – 27 December 1945, in Brussels) was a Belgian art historian specialising in Early Netherlandish art. He was educated in his home city of Ghent where he attended high school and university, earnin ...

Hans Memling Hans Memling (also spelled Memlinc; c. 1430 – 11 August 1494) was a painter active in Flanders, who worked in the tradition of Early Netherlandish painting. He was born in the Middle Rhine region and probably spent his childhood in Mainz. He ...

, a painter strongly influenced by van der Weyden (although this would date the work as 1464 at latest). de Loo noted the Glasgow panel's "elegance and sensitivity", and speculated that they were based on prototypes by van der Weyden, perhaps finished by Memling under van der Weyden's supervision. However this view was eventually rejected and the panels attributed to an unidentified painter, who had apprenticed under van der Weyden and was in contact and influenced by Memling and the Master of the Legend of St. Catherine,Wolfe; Hand, 156 who is sometimes though to have been Pieter van der Weyden, Rogier's son.

Attributed works

* ''Adoration of the Magi'' - c. 1470 – 1480. Prado, Madrid * ''The Flight into Egypt'' - * ''Presentation at the Temple'' - c. 1470 – 1480. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. * ''Virgin Annunciate'' - Burrell Collection, Glasgow. * ''Nativity'' - c. 1475 – 1500.

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File:Annunciation Master-Prado.jpg, ''Virgin Annunciate''. Utmost left wing of a

. Burrell Collection, Glasgow. File:Memling Adoration des Mages Prado01558.jpg, ''Adoration of the Magi''. Central panel.

Prado The Prado Museum ( ; ), officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to house one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the ...

File:Presentation in the Temple Prado Master.jpg, ''Presentation in the Temple'', Oil on panel, 57.9 x 47.8 cm. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. File:The Flight into Egypt Prado Master.jpg, ''The Flight into Egypt''

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Works cited

* Ridderbos, Bernhard; Van Buren, Anne; Van Veen, Henk. ''Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception and Research''. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2005. * Wolff, Martha; Hand, John Oliver. ''Early Netherlandish painting''. National Gallery of Art Washington; Oxford University Press, 1987.

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