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Master of the Codex of St George
( fl first half of the 14th century). Italian illuminator and painter. His cognomen is derived from an illuminated Missal, known as the St George Codex (Rome, Vatican, Bib. Apostolica, Archv Capitolare S Pietro, MS. C. 129). From the time of DeNicola, who first connected this Master with the Vatican manuscript, until the early 1950s, he was thought to have been trained by a Sienese master, specifically, a follower of Simone Martini. The arguments centred around his association with Simone in Avignon and the importance of both artists for the development of the International Gothic style. Simone Martini’s lost fresco of St George in Notre-Dame-des-Doms, Avignon, was considered to be the model for the St George Master’s illustration on folio 85r of the Vatican manuscript: on that page, St George frees the Cappadocian princess in the margins of Cardinal Giacomo Stefaneschi’s text on ‘The Miracles and Martyrdom of St George’ (see fig.). Most scholars, however, now consider that the Master received his early training in Florentine art and that he was active in the first half of the 14th century, possibly as early as the first decade. A chronology of his career was established by Howett, but different dates were suggested by Boskovits (1984), because he associated the artist with the career of the elusive Lippo di Benivieni.
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