The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active 1500 – 1520) was a Flemish painter in the style of

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, whose compositions are typically filled with agitated figures in exotic, extravagant clothes. His

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is from a

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showing the

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, acquired by the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts. He was active in Antwerp. He was identified by Max J. Friedlander as the same person as the Master of Linnich.Master of the Antwerp Adoration
in the

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(Netherlands Institute for Art History) Little else is known. Despite various attempts to match him to recorded names of artists of the time, a leading scholar described the question of his identity in 2007 as "still up in smoke".

Works

Apart from the Antwerp triptych, another with the same main subject in the

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(

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) is by the master, and Peter Van Den Brink suggests a large triptych altarpiece on the basis of several fragments.Van Den Brink, throughout Several other works have been attributed.

Notes

References

*Van Den Brink, Peter. "A Shattered Jigsaw Puzzle: On a Partly Reconstructed Altarpiece by the Master of the Antwerp Adoration", ''Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch'' 68 (2007): 161–80. Accessed December 31, 2020
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1480s births 1520s deaths Early Netherlandish painters Artists from Antwerp {{Flemish-painter-stub