The major new revelation in the exhibition "Botticelli, Artist and Designer" at the Musée Jacquemart-André - a student of the master is undeniably the "Master of Gothic Buildings," whose tondo in the Musée Jacquemart-André was recently restored.
Master of Gothic Buildings (Jacopo Foschi?, active in Florence around 1485 and until around 1520), The Virgin and St. John the Baptist Adoring the Child in Front of a View of Venice, c. 1500, tempera on wood, diam. 71.5 cm. Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André - Institut de France
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In 1920, the Finnish-Swedish art historian Osvald Sirén wrote about a hypothetical artist he nicknamed the "Master of Gothic Buildings": a student of Sandro Botticelli with a decided penchant for Nordic Gothic architecture—churches with pointed roofs, castles with high turrets, Nordic palaces with stepped gables—and a pronounced feeling for architecture evident even in his treatment of hills and trees. Sirén built up a corpus by this "new" master around a handful of works that include the tondo in the Jacquemart-André collection. Over the last century, the "Master of Gothic Buildings" has yielded almost none of his secrets, and by 2005, unlike generations of specialists, only American art historian Everett Fahy (d. 2018) had no doubts as to…
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