Master of Città di Castello [SEP] occupation
Master of Città di Castello
Master of Città di Castello, in Italian, "Maestro di Città di Castello", (active 1290-1320) was an anonymous painter of Medieval art. Mason Perkins is responsible for his identification and naming in 1908, based on the styling from the Master preserved at the Pinacoteca comunale, Città di Castello, in Umbria.
Attributions and influences.
The single point of chronological anchor of the Master's activity is related to recognition on the back of Polyptych Montespecchio, indicating that it
fellow Sienese artists Guido of Siena and Dietisalvi di Speme and the revolutionary new pictorial language that was emerging on the sites of Assisi embodied by the young Giotto and Duccio. In this context, the Master of Città di Castello is clearly on the side of "modern", and indeed was one of the early followers of Duccio, of those so-called "first generation", including Master of Badia a Isola and Master of Albertini.
Regarding the latter, the work of the Master of Città di Castello shows such