Artist

Master of Varlungo

b. 1201

Master of Varlungo is a Byzantine icon painting painter. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Master of Varlungo was an Italian painter active in a Gothic style around Florence between 1285 and 1310. No documentation exists about the painter; his name is attached to pictures dating from the last two decades of the thirteenth century. His central work is a fragmentary Madonna and Child still located in the church of San Pietro a Varlungo, Florence.

On a stylistic basis, he was assigned by Roberto Longhi in 1948 as a principal pupil of Cimabue, and as influenced by Giotto. A panel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, depicting a Madonna and Child Enthroned with Angels has been attributed to this painter.

Works by Master of Varlungo

Collections represented

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