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Master L.Cz. [?L.Cm.]
( fl c. 1485–1500). German printmaker and painter. Ten of the twelve surviving engravings by this artist are signed with the monogram. Two are also dated: a design for a decorative piece, the Maiden and the Unicorn (1492; see Lehrs, no. 12), and SS Peter and Paul (1497; L 9). The early engravings, for example St George (c. 1485–90; L 7), are somewhat derivative of Martin Schongauer and the Housebook Master; later works, such as the Temptation of Christ (late 1490s; L 2), show the Master’s own style. As he used aquatint to achieve tone, so that his engravings resemble painting, it is thought that he was not a goldsmith but a painter. Consequently he has been attributed with the works of the Master of the Strache Altar, named from four Passion scenes (c. 1485–90), of which three—Christ before Pilate (Berlin, Gemäldegal.), the Flagellation (Paris, Louvre) and Christ Carrying the Cross (Nuremberg, Ger. Nmus.)—were in the collection of Hugo Strache. The suggestion that they were on two wings forming part of an Agony in the Garden (after 1497–before 1504; Darmstadt, Hess. Landesmus.) cannot be correct, as the latter was not painted until the end of the 15th century and the measurements do not correspond.
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