Panel originally painted on both sides, from Aranyosmarót. Detail of a movable wing of an altarpiece
1460-1470
Pine, tempera
The Adoration of the Magi
Inv. 55.22
107.5 x 59 x .8 cm (without the frame), 115 x 65 (with the frame)
The Adoration of the Magi appeared on the inner, feast-day side of the movable wing of a winged altarpiece. The workday-side scene on the reverse of the panel, which was sawed off, showed Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple (55.23).
The composition, facial types, the movements of the figures, and the spatial relationships recall the painterly milieu of Hans Pleydenwurff. A close stylistic analogy to this picture is a work depicting the same theme in the Fränkische Galerie in Kronach (MA3419), which researchers have attributed to an assistant or family member of Pleydenwurff. Another analogous work is a painting of the Adoration of the Magi (Kremsmünster, Stiftsgalerie), dated to around 1460-70 by a painter referred to as the Master of Wartberg. The analogies demonstrate clearly the stylistic connections of these panels that arrived in Esztergom from Aranyosmarót: the influence of Pleydenwurff’ and his circle certainly reached the painter via Vienna.
Provenance:
The panel was purchased along with its sawed-off reverse showing the Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple and two other panels (55.20/55.21) for 1000 gold crowns by Prince Primate János Csernoch (cf. the registry of the office of the archbishop) from the Roman Catholic parish of Aranyosmarót between 1913 and 1916. Before 1911, the four panels hung in the parish of Aranyosmarót. They may very well have come from the private collection of Kristóf Migazzi after Migazzi purchased them and other works in the environs of Vienna.
Restoration: Walter Madarassy and Szilvia Hernády (Adoration of the Magi), 1985.
Bibliography
Divald Kornél: Csúcsíveskori szárnyasoltárok Bars és Túróc vármegyében. A M. Mérnök és Építész-Egyl. Közlönye, 45(1911), 54. – Divald Kornél: Magyarország Csúcsíveskori szárnyasoltárai, II. Bp. 1911, 41. – Divald Kornél: Bars és Hont vm-i kutatások. Múzeumi és Könyvtári értesítő V. 1911, 162. – Gerevich-1916, 553. – Lepold-Homor 1924, 96. – Benesch-1929, 68. – Genthon-1932, 50. – V. Wagner: Gotické tabul'ové maliarstvo na Slovensku. Turciansky Sväty Martin 1942, 19. – Genthon-1948, 26. – Radocsay-1955b, 63, 114, 257. – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964, 124 (a tiroli festészethez áll közel). – Mucsi-1975, 11. – Die Heiligen Drei Könige. Mythos, Kunst und Kult. Hg. Manuela Beer, Iris Metje et al. Ausstellung Museum Schnütgen, Köln - München 2015, 256-257 (Sarkadi Nagy)
The Adoration of the Magi appeared on the inner, feast-day side of the movable wing of a winged altarpiece. The workday-side scene on the reverse of the panel, which was sawed off, showed Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple (55.23).
The composition, facial types, the movements of the figures, and the spatial relationships recall the painterly milieu of Hans Pleydenwurff. A close stylistic analogy to this picture is a work depicting the same theme in the Fränkische Galerie in Kronach (MA3419), which researchers have attributed to an assistant or family member of Pleydenwurff. Another analogous work is a painting of the Adoration of the Magi (Kremsmünster, Stiftsgalerie), dated to around 1460-70 by a painter referred to as the Master of Wartberg. The analogies demonstrate clearly the stylistic connections of these panels that arrived in Esztergom from Aranyosmarót: the influence of Pleydenwurff’ and his circle certainly reached the painter via Vienna.
Provenance:
The panel was purchased along with its sawed-off reverse showing the Twelve-Year-Old Jesus in the Temple and two other panels (55.20/55.21) for 1000 gold crowns by Prince Primate János Csernoch (cf. the registry of the office of the archbishop) from the Roman Catholic parish of Aranyosmarót between 1913 and 1916. Before 1911, the four panels hung in the parish of Aranyosmarót. They may very well have come from the private collection of Kristóf Migazzi after Migazzi purchased them and other works in the environs of Vienna.
Restoration: Walter Madarassy and Szilvia Hernády (Adoration of the Magi), 1985.
Bibliography
Divald Kornél: Csúcsíveskori szárnyasoltárok Bars és Túróc vármegyében. A M. Mérnök és Építész-Egyl. Közlönye, 45(1911), 54. – Divald Kornél: Magyarország Csúcsíveskori szárnyasoltárai, II. Bp. 1911, 41. – Divald Kornél: Bars és Hont vm-i kutatások. Múzeumi és Könyvtári értesítő V. 1911, 162. – Gerevich-1916, 553. – Lepold-Homor 1924, 96. – Benesch-1929, 68. – Genthon-1932, 50. – V. Wagner: Gotické tabul'ové maliarstvo na Slovensku. Turciansky Sväty Martin 1942, 19. – Genthon-1948, 26. – Radocsay-1955b, 63, 114, 257. – Boskovits-Mojzer-Mucsi-1964, 124 (a tiroli festészethez áll közel). – Mucsi-1975, 11. – Die Heiligen Drei Könige. Mythos, Kunst und Kult. Hg. Manuela Beer, Iris Metje et al. Ausstellung Museum Schnütgen, Köln - München 2015, 256-257 (Sarkadi Nagy)
