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Master of the Vyssí Brod Altar
( fl mid-14th century). Bohemian painter. The altarpiece from which this anonymous artist takes his name originally came from the Cistercian monastery in Vyssí Brod (Ger. Hohenfurth), southern Bohemia. It consists of nine panels (now in Prague, N.G., Convent of St George), which were once probably arranged thematically in three tiers. The lower row showed scenes from the Infancy of Christ—the Annunciation, Nativity and Adoration of the Magi; the centre row, Passion scenes—the Agony in the Garden, Crucifixion and Lamentation; and the top row was composed of the Resurrection, Ascension and Pentecost. Although nothing is known of the artist, a small figure in the lower right-hand corner of the Nativity panel provides a possible identity for the donor. The kneeling nobleman holds the model of a church, and prominently displayed beside him are the Rozmberk arms. Peter I of Rozmberk died in 1347, and his patronage of the monastery at Vyssí Brod—itself on Rozmberk lands—earned him the title ‘secundus fundator’.
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