The Master of the Griselda Story is named from this set of paintings which relate the story of Patient Griselda. Other paintings have been ascribed to him. The influence of Signorelli and Pintoricchio is detectable, which implies that the painter may have worked in Siena.
Master of the Story of Griselda
active about 1490 - 1500
Paintings by Master of the Story of Griselda
This panel, the first of a series of three in the National Gallery’s collection, shows part of the story of Griselda, a young peasant woman. We see her meet and then marry the Marquis Gualtieri di Saluzzo, who would go on to put her through a series of tests. Her loyalty throughout the ordeal ear...
The story of a peasant woman called Griselda was told in The Decameron, a book written in the mid-fourteenth century. She was put through a series of tests by her rich husband, the Marquis Gualtieri di Saluzzo – we see three of them in this painting.In the background on the left, two tiny babies...
The Decameron, a fourteenth-century collection of stories, tells the tale of Griselda, a peasant woman who was put through a series of tests by her rich husband, the Marquis Gualtieri di Saluzzo. This is the final panel of a series of three; it shows the couple’s reunion after Griselda’s ordeal.A...