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| Master of Tavarnelle |
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| Painter |
| Active between the late 15th and early decades of the 16th centuries |
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An anonymous painter from the school of Ghirlandaio, the Master of
Tavarnelle traditionally gets his name from the painting of the Holy
Conversation now in the Museum of Religious Art at Tavarnelle Val di
Pesa. Fahy, the first person to isolate this artistic personality,
believed him to be a student and collaborator of Filippino Lippi and
advanced the theory that he could possibly be identified as NiccolÚ
Cartoni, who was Filippino's assistant in the late 15th century. This
scholar attributes the artist with a series of paintings on religious
and mythological subjects, now in various museums and private
collections in Europe and America. However Federico Zeri only accepts a
few of Fahy's attributions, believing that this master was instead of
French origin, and gives him a different pseudonym, the Master of
Cassoni Campana. It is difficult to reconstruct a catalogue of the
artist's work as the two critics only agree on some paintings, among
them the altarpiece with Sts. Anthony Abbot, Sebastian and Rochus in
the Museum of Religious Art at San Casciano Val di Pesa and the bridal
Chests or Cassoni in the Campana collection. |
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