Isaac Master (painter)
When Isaac Masters (Italian Maestro d' Isacco ) in the history of art can not be clearly identified painter of frescoes in the upper church of San Francesco in Assisi called. The resulting images show in 1290 on the north wall scenes of the death of Isaac from the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament. The work of the master is often seen as an early work by Giotto.
Attempts by the identifying
- Giotto
The identification of the Isaac - master with the young Giotto is a frequently discussed hypothesis of Giotto research. The images are its innovative style and its spatial perspective very close to them and is in the overall program of the frescoes of St. Francis cycle in Assisi a special status granted. The "revolutionary" is regarded as frescoes by Master make the hypothesis plausible, as they show in their late Byzantine and its style similar to the ancient style of painting and by directly addressing the viewer by placing the image objects in space a new direction towards the art of the Italian Renaissance.
It has been hypothesized, at Isaac's master if it were the Italian painter Arnolfo di Cambio. This assumption, however, remains controversial.