The Master is named after a monogrammed painting of 'The Parable of the Great Supper’ in the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Brunswick (Braunschweig). The monogram has not been convincingly deciphered but the picture may be associated with several others of religious and secular subjects, which, from the costume, seem to be of the period between about 1535 and 1555. The painter has often been identified as Jan van Amstel, active in Antwerp by 1527 and dead by 1543.
The Brunswick Monogrammist
active about 1535 - 1555
Paintings by The Brunswick Monogrammist
A sick person wearing a white veil and gown lies in bed. A barefoot man kneels beside the bed; another stands at the bed head, holding a pink shirt. This is probably the raising of Tabitha (Acts 9: 36–41), one of the miracles performed by Saint Peter after Christ’s death. Tabitha was a disciple o...
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This is the interior of a brothel. On the left, three men drink with the women who work there, whose skirts are hoisted up to show their legs. On the right, we see a group of entertainers: a boy does a headstand on a stool; a small dog has perhaps already jumped through the hoop on the floor. An...
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