Поклонение {3134}
Adoration
автор:
Мастер Венского Поклонения
Master of the Vienna Adoration
место:
Будапешт: МИИ
Budapest: Museum of Fine Arts
композиция:
The scene takes place in a rocky landscape with flowers and grass, which lack any geometrical order and any architecture.
The Magi, having arrived from the left without a retinue, are about to reveren- tially hand over their gifts to the Virgin and Child seated on the right.
Balthasar, the youngest among them, is a nearly symmetrical counterpart of the figure of the Madonna, who is bending slightly forwards.
Balthasar's rather feminine figure and the wing-like, fluttering back edge of his garment reminds us of the Archangel Gabriel of the Annunciation.
The top left corner is filled by the figure of a youthful shepherd, characterized by colours identical with the Virgin's.
He is leaning with his elbow against the background.
Like repeated designs with small variations clumps of softly moving grass, weightlessly curving and bending like pondweed, appear in the foreground interspersed with a diversity of flowers, whose petals are spread like points of a star.
The Virgin's left hand, with the fingers opening like petals, is a telling example of the way of thinking in terms of ornamental designs, and is characteristic both of the painter and of the period.
Soft modelling is very evident in the whole composition.
When he had carefully arranged the edges of the draperies on the ground and meticulously conveyed the difference between the parts of the folds in the light and those in shade, the painter paid greater attention to them than to the rather schematic and blank faces.
To such an extent is softness a part of his art that he had difficulties in depicting hard, metallic surfaces (see, for example, the modelling of the crowns and the presents).
The Master of the Vienna Adoration learned a lot from the Master of Trebon, who was a generation older than him.
The Virgin's figure, gently bent slightly forwards, Her round head with a lofty forehead, and the softly drawn and carefully arranged deep folds of Her mantle are reminiscent of the picture {3133}.
The uncertain representation of the pose of kneeling is also similar in the two pictures.
оформление:
1410.
Липа, темпера.
Tempera on linden wood.
The picture is the size of a folio and is (like his other works) a domestic altar painted with the delicacy of a miniature.
220х260.
предмет с изображением:
Virgin museum
Peter museum
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