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Michele Ciampanti (active 1463-1510) was an Italian painter active mainly in Lucca. This painter has been identified as matching Berenson's putative ''Master of Stratonice'', and is also called ''Michele di Michele Ciampanti''.
A short biography states that he was the illegitimate son, and likely pupil, of the painter Borghese di Piero Borghese, also known as the ''Master of the Santi Quirico e Giulitta''. Documents state Michele Ciampanti was made heir of the painter in 1463, and attribute his birth to prior to 1447. He has been identified as likely a ''Michele da Lucca'' at work in 1467 in the Sacrum Luce website
, biography attributed to Riccardo Massagli.
Biography
Biographical details about the painter were collected in the twentieth century. He seems to have either traveled to Siena or formed contacts with the work of other contemporary Tuscan painters, such as the Florentines,Filippino Lippi
Filippino Lippi (April 1457 – 18 April 1504) was an Italian painter working in Florence, Italy during the later years of the Early Renaissance and first few years of the High Renaissance.
Biography
Filippino Lippi was born in Prato, Tusc ...
and Sandro Botticelli
Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi ( – May 17, 1510), known as Sandro Botticelli (, ), was an Italian Renaissance painting, Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th cent ...
as well as the Sienese, Matteo di Giovanni
Matteo di Giovanni (c. 1430 – 1495) was an Italian Renaissance artist from the Sienese School.
Biography
Matteo di Giovanni di Bartolo was born in Borgo Sansepolcro around 1430. His family relocated to Siena and he is firmly associated with ...
and Francesco di Giorgio
Francesco di Giorgio Martini (1439–1501) was an Italian architect, engineer, painter, sculptor, and writer. As a painter, he belonged to the Sienese School. He was considered a visionary architectural theorist—in Nikolaus Pevsner's terms ...
, although it is unclear who influenced who. The cassetoni depicting the scene of ''Stratonice and (the son of) Antiochus'' (c. 1470), now at the Huntington Library
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, known as The Huntington, is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and Arabella Huntington (c.1851–1924) in San Mar ...
in California. In addition, works at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
in New York, including the ''Cassoni of the Two Triumphs'' have been attributed to him. An Adoration of the Shepherds at the Galleria Cini in Venice is also attributed to this painter.
A short biography states that he was the illegitimate son, and likely pupil, of the painter Borghese di Piero Borghese, also known as the ''Master of the Santi Quirico e Giulitta''. Documents state Michele Ciampanti was made heir of the painter in 1463, and attribute his birth to prior to 1447. He has been identified as likely a ''Michele da Lucca'' at work in 1467 in the Duomo di Pisa
Pisa Cathedral ( it, Cattedrale Metropolitana Primaziale di Santa Maria Assunta; Duomo di Pisa) is a medieval Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in the Piazza dei Miracoli in Pisa, Italy, the oldest of the t ...
. The cassetoni of ''Stratonice'' and others depicting the ''Myth of Orpheus and Euridice'' and the ''Rape of Proserpine'' are attributed to a Florentine phase in the 1470s. He is said to have collaborated with Matteo Civitali
Matteo Civitali (1436–1501) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor and architect, painterThe only known painting attributed to Matteo, a triptych of the ''Virgin and Child with Saints Michael Archangel, John the Baptist, Biagio and Peter'', execut ...
and Baldassare di Biagio around 1476 in Lucca. Ciampanti is said to have painted frescoes in 1485 for the Chapel of San Regolo and in 1486 for the Ospedale di Camaiore in Lucca. He is documented alongside Vincenzo Frediano (Master of the Immaculate Conception) as pricing a work for the Oratory of San Lorenzo. His son, Ansano (Maestro di San Filippo) emerges in the late 1490s, and likely collaborated with him in some frescoes in the Baptistry of Lucca
In Christian architecture the baptistery or baptistry (Old French ''baptisterie''; Latin ''baptisterium''; Greek , 'bathing-place, baptistery', from , baptízein, 'to baptize') is the separate centrally planned structure surrounding the baptismal ...
. In 1496, he painted for the tribune of the Pietrasanta Cathedral
The Collegiate Church of San Martino ( it, Collegiata di San Martino; ''Duomo di Pietrasanta'') is a collegiate church in Pietrasanta, in the region of Tuscany, Italy. It is the main church or ''duomo'' of the town. It is first mentioned in 12 ...
., biography attributed to Riccardo Massagli.
Other sources
* R. Massagli: ''La bottega dei Ciampanti: il Maestro di Stratonice e il Maestro di San Filippo'' In: ''Proporzioni'', N.S. 2/3.2001/02(2003), S. 59-103 (zur Werkstatt des Meisters, italienisch) * M. Tazartes: ''Anagrafe lucchese: II. Michele Ciampanti ; il maestro di Stratonice?'' In: ''Ricerche di storia dell'arte'', 26.1985, S. 18-27 (italienisch) * “Stratonice-Master” in The Grove Dictionary of Art: Macmillan Publishers 2000 (englisch)References
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