Maso di Banco
Maso di Banco (working c 1335–1350) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, who worked in Florence, Italy. He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic realism inaugurated by Giotto. • Illustration — Pope Sylvester I turning away a dragon and reviving its victims, by Maso di Banco Maso's name and work are known to us from Lorenzo Ghiberti's autobiographical I Commentari, which identifies frescoes in the chapel of the Holy Confessors at Santa Croce, Florence as his chief work. The frescoes, not signed or dated but probably c 1340, represent scenes from the Life of St.
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Maso di Banco
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- painter and sculptor.
- Teachers
- Giotto.
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Maso di Banco (working c 1335–1350) was an Italian painter of the 14th century, who worked in Florence, Italy. He and Taddeo Gaddi were the most prominent Florentine pupils of Giotto di Bondone, exploring the three-dimensional dramatic realism inaugurated by Giotto. • Illustration — Pope Sylvester I turning away a dragon and reviving its victims, by Maso di Banco Maso's name and work are known to us from Lorenzo Ghiberti's autobiographical I Commentari, which identifies frescoes in the chapel of the Holy Confessors at Santa Croce, Florence as his chief work. The frescoes, not signed or dated but probably c 1340, represent scenes from the Life of St.
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Selected works
Sylvester (Pope Sylvester I), the Last Judgment, and The Entombment. His fresco of a particular judgment is in the Bardi banking family chapel of Santa Croce. It features Gualtiero de' Bardi pleading on behalf of his soul before Jesus Christ. Nanni di Banco, a sculptor of the early 15th century, is not related to Maso.
Training under Giotto is recorded. Places of work recorded in the authority are Florence. Work by Maso di Banco is recorded in the collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Detroit Institute of Arts and Condé Museum.
• Triptych, Detroit Institute of Art • Portable altarpiece depicting Madonna and Christ Child with Saints and Scenes From The Life of Christ at Brooklyn Museum • Panel depicting The Coronation of the Virgin at the Budapest Museum of Fine Art
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1250
Maso di Banco born at Florence.
1333
Tomb of Bettino de' Bardi is dated 1333.
1348
Maso di Banco died at Florence.
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 121059669, Maso, di Banco.
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
- Getty Union List of Artist Names 500008558, Maso di Banco.
General reference · The Getty Research Institute
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q514664: Maso di Banco
Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation
- “Maso di Banco”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Laut Keith Christiansen im Katalogeintrag zum Hl. Antonius von Padua in der Sammlung des Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 2.Julius Schlosser. Denkwürdigkeiten des florentinischen Bildhauers Lorenzo Ghiberti. 1920.
- 3.Julius Schlosser. Denkwürdigkeiten des florentinischen Bildhauers Lorenzo Ghiberti. 1920.
- 4.Eve Borsook: The Companion Guide to Florence. Companion Guides, Woodbridge 1996 (1966), 6. rev. Fassung 1997, korr. 2000, S. 281.
- 5.John Pope-Hennessy. Italian Gothic Sculpture. 1996.
- 6.Gert Kreytenberg. The Sculpture of Maso di Banco. 1979. 0007-6287.
- 7.Maria mit dem Kind in der Datenbank der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
- 8.Der Hl. Antonius Eremita und der Hl. Johannes der Täufer in der SBM-Datenbank
- 9.Die Gürtelspende in der SBM-Datenbank
- 10.Ausführliche Datenseite zum Bild in der Onlinedatenbank der MET-Sammlung.
- 11.Triptych auf der Seite des Museums.
- 12.The Coronation of the Virgin in der Datenbank der Sammlung (Englisch und Ungarisch).
- 13.La Dormition de la Vierge mit Dokumentation auf der Homepage der Sammlung (nur auf Französisch).
- 14.Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion.
- 15.Virgin and Child with Four Saints and Two Angels auf der Homepage des Museums.
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authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 121059669, Maso, di Banco.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Secondary witnessauthority file
Getty Union List of Artist Names 500008558, Maso di Banco.The Getty Research Institute
Secondary witnessreference work
Wikidata, structured authority record Q514664: Maso di BancoWikimedia Foundation
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