The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active 1500 – 1520) was a Flemish painter in the style of Antwerp Mannerism, whose compositions are typically filled with agitated figures in exotic, extravagant clothes. His notname is from a triptych showing the Adoration of the Magi, acquired by the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts.
He was active in Antwerp. He was identified by Max J. Friedlander as the same person as the Master of Linnich.Master of the Antwerp Adoration in the RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art History) Little else is known. Despite various attempts to match him to recorded names of artists of the time, a leading scholar described the question of his identity in 2007 as "still up in smoke".Van Den Brink, 167
Works Apart from the Antwerp triptych, another with the same main subject in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) is by the master,Van Den Brink, 166-167 and Peter Van Den Brink suggests a large triptych altarpiece on the basis of several fragments.Van Den Brink, throughout Several other works have been attributed.
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References Van Den Brink, Peter. "A Shattered Jigsaw Puzzle: On a Partly Reconstructed Altarpiece by the Master of the Antwerp Adoration", Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 68 (2007): 161–80. Accessed December 31, 2020. JSTOR
External links
Master of the Antwerp Adoration on Artnet