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Master of the Lathrop Tondo [Guinigi Painter]
( fl c. 1490–1520). Italian painter. He was named by Berenson (1906) after the tondo of the Virgin and Child, with SS Jerome and Catherine and a Donor (c. 1496–1502; Malibu, CA, Getty Mus.), which from 1906 to 1929 had belonged to Francis Lathrop, a New York collector. The painting was commissioned by the Guinigi and Buonvisi families of Lucca (whose coats of arms are included), probably to commemorate the marriage of Michele Guinigi and Caterina Buonvisi in 1496. Berenson collected a corpus of paintings around this work, suggesting that the Master was active in Lucca and influenced by Domenico Ghirlandaio, Filippino Lippi and Flemish painting. Ragghianti (1955) added five more works to the Master’s oeuvre and renamed him the Guinigi Painter. He believed that the artist was particularly influenced by the Bolognese painter Amico Aspertini, who was active in Lucca c. 1506–8/9. Fahy (1965) added 23 paintings to the Master’s supposed output, but Ferretti (1975) gave a number of them to the MASTER OF THE CROCIFISSO DEI BIANCHI (see above). A preliminary chronology for the Master of the Lathrop Tondo was proposed by Natale (1980). A panel of St Anthony Enthroned with SS Andrew, Dominic, Francis and Bartholomew (Lucca, S Pietro Somaldi), attributed to him by Ferretti and Kiel (both 1972), was dated to c. 1497 and identified as the work of MICHELANGELO DI PIETRO by Tazartes (1985); the Master’s chronology, however, remains uncertain.
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