The Master of the Rebel Angels is an
anonymous master of the
Sienese School, during the second quarter of the 14th century (
Trecento
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Period Art
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).
He is only known by two
panels of an ancient
polyptych painted between 1340 and 1345. They can be seen at the
Musée du Louvre.
His name is derived from one of these panels called ''The Fall of the Rebel Angels''. The other panel depicts
Saint Martin Saint Martin may refer to:
People
* Saint Martin of Tours (c. 316–397), Bishop of Tours, France
* Saint Martin of Braga (c. 520–580), archbishop of Bracara Augusta in Gallaecia (now Braga in Portugal)
* Pope Martin I (598–655)
* Saint Mart ...
dividing his cloak with the beggar.
The Master of the Rebel Angels had an influence on
Limbourg brothers for the
illuminated manuscript
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''
Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry'' (around 1410).
Bibliography
*Michel Laclotte, « Le Maître des Anges Rebelles » in ''Paragone'', 237, 1969, pp. 3–14.
*Joseph Polzer, « The 'Master of the Rebel Angels' reconsidered » in ''The art bulletin'', LXIII, 1981, pp. 562–584
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References
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14th-century Italian painters
Trecento painters
Painters from Siena
Gothic painters
Rebel Angels, Master of the
Year of birth unknown