Aix Annunciation

As a master of the Annunciation of Aix ( fr. Maître d' Aix Annunciation ), occasionally master of Annunciation altar of Aix, Master of Aix ) is called the name not sure famous late Gothic painter who in 1442 or 1445 the image of a proclamation Maria has for the Saint- Sauveur Cathedral painted in Aix -en- Provence in France. It was the center image of a triptych whose wings represent two prophets. The triptych was dismantled during the French Revolution, to save it from destruction. The Annunciation is now in the Mary Magdalene Church in Aix, the wing images are distributed to various museums in Amsterdam, Brussels and Rotterdam.

The Annunciation of Aix, one of the most important in the 15th century north of the Alps resulting painting shows the influence of painting both from Italy and from France or Flanders. After various identifications have been proposed today, the opinion has prevailed that it was under the Notnamen Master of the Annunciation of Aix -run around the painter active in France Barthelemy d' Eyck is in which in the first half of the 20th century from Flanders. Previously also a controversial attribution of the work to Niccolo Colantonio from Naples had been tried in Italy and a further write-up to Frenchman Jean Chapus, painter in the service of the court in Anjou.

The Master of the Annunciation of Aix is a contemporary of Jan van Eyck and Stephan Lochner and how these representatives of a new Soft Style in painting. In addition to the typical of this style more and more three-dimensional painted clothing and drapery is also the dimensionality of the representation of the architecture, eg the rows of pillars, a distinctive feature of the Annunciation image of Aix.

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