Master of the Blue Crucifixes
Illustration — Double-sided Crucifix (13th century), tempera on panel, 109.5 x 77 cm. The Master of the Blue Crucifixes was an Italian artist active either in the region of Umbria or Emilia during the middle of the thirteenth century. He is associated with the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, and may have been an assistant of Giunta Pisano, whose work his paintings resemble.
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Master of the Blue Crucifixes
Master of the Blue Crucifixes, Italian (active around 1250 in Umbria) · Public domain
- Born
- 1240
- Died
- 1260
- Occupation
- painter
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Illustration — Double-sided Crucifix (13th century), tempera on panel, 109.5 x 77 cm. The Master of the Blue Crucifixes was an Italian artist active either in the region of Umbria or Emilia during the middle of the thirteenth century. He is associated with the Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi, and may have been an assistant of Giunta Pisano, whose work his paintings resemble.
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A number of his works survive, mainly processional crucifixes from which, along with his favoring of blue paint as a background, his name is derived.
Places of work recorded in the authority are Assisi and Perugia. Work by Master of the Blue Crucifixes is recorded in the collections of Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Treasure Museum of the basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi and Wallraf–Richartz Museum.
Master of the Blue Crucifixes or Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes. St. John the Evangelist. c.1272. NGA, Washington
Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes · National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., online collection
Master of the Blue Crucifixes or Master of the Franciscan Crucifixes. The Mourning Madonna. c.1272. NGA, Washington1
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1240
Master of the Blue Crucifixes born.
1260
Master of the Blue Crucifixes died.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Treasure Museum of the basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi and Wallraf–Richartz Museum
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