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Master of the Embroidered Foliage
( fl Brussels, c. 1495–1500). Painter, active in the southern Netherlands. This name was given by Friedländer to the artist of a number of works that include foliage depicted in an almost mechanical technique, with small luminous raised marks, reminiscent of embroidery stitches (although this motif should not be the sole criterion for attribution). The influence of Rogier van der Weyden is evident in the Master’s paintings of the Virgin, which are conflations or copies of van der Weyden’s own work. The main, generally accepted, attributions are the Virgin and Child in a Garden (see fig.), the triptych of the Virgin and Child with Angels (Lille, Mus. B.-A.) and the Virgin and Child (1510–20) from the Johnson Collection (Philadelphia, PA, Mus. F.A.)—this last being an embellished copy, and the earliest one known, of van der Weyden’s Virgin and Child in a Niche (Madrid, Prado). All three of these very similar works show the Virgin holding the Child in her lap, while he plays with the pages of a Bible. The St Peter on the back of the right wing of the Melbourne Altarpiece (Melbourne, N.G. Victoria) is also generally attributed to this Master. Two other works that can be assigned to the same artist, the triptych with the Virgin and Child with Angels and SS Catherine and Barbara (before 1496; Polizzi Generosa, S Maria degli Angeli) and the Virgin and Child with Angels (ex-Groz priv. col.; Paris, Louvre), reveal the influence of Hugo van de Goes.
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