Exploration:
Gothic Era (Gothic
and Early Renaissance)
Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Master of the Lyversberg Passion
Master of the Pfullendorf Altar
Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist
Italian painter (active 1325-1350 in Rimini)
Scenes from the Life of Saint John the Baptist
1330-40
National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Baptism of Christ probably 1330/1340
Madonna and Child with Angels probably 1330/1340
Master of the Pfullendorf Altar
( fl c. 1500). German painter. He is named after a double-winged
altarpiece (c. 1500), supposedly from the parish church at Pfullendorf,
of which eight panels of the Life of the Virgin and Prophets have
survived. In reconstruction the cycle presents two rows, one above the other,
each with four panels depicting the Life of the Virgin (Sigmaringen,
Fürst. Hohenzoll. Samml. & Hofbib.; Stuttgart, Staatsgal.; Frankfurt am Main,
Städel. Kstinst. & Städt. Gal.), which together formed the second view of the
altarpiece. When closed, it showed four scenes of the Passion (now almost
completely destr.), on the reverse sides of the outer wings. The shrine that
belonged to the third view is lost, but there is evidence that it contained
carved relief figures of St Ottilie and a second female saint. The eight
surviving half-length pictures of Prophets (Stuttgart, Staatsgal.) may
have been next to the scenes from the Life of the Virgin, as the figures
are positioned outside the picture axis of the painted scenes (Bushart), or may
have formed the front and reverse of upper side extensions that covered the
higher central shrine (Rettich).
