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Master of the Holy Kinship

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[[File:Sippenaltar der Familie Nikasius Hackeney.JPG|thumb|500px|Altar of the Holy Kinship]]
The '''Master of the Holy Kinship the Younger''' is a German painter of the [[Middle Ages]] who was active between 1475 and 1515 in [[Cologne]] and its environs. He is designated "The Younger" to distinguish him from another Master, given the same name, who worked in that area from 1410 to 1440.

==Works==
His [[notname]] is derived from a shuttered [[altarpiece]] at the [[Wallraf-Richartz-Museum]] in Cologne, created c.1503. The central part of the triptych is a [[holy kinship]] scene, with [[Catherine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine]] and [[Saint Barbara]], which also makes it a [[mystical marriage]] tableau.<ref name="G">[http://bit.ly/2D7icSP "Master of the Holy Kinship"]. Internet Archive. The ''Grove Dictionary of Art'', Macmillan 2000. </ref> It was donated by Nikasius Hackeney, a tax administrator at the Imperial Court, and includes portraits of him and his family.

An attempt to identify the Master as Lambert von Luytge, a painter who was active in Cologne at roughly the same time, was inconclusive. The works attributed to him are rich, numerous and varied, ranging from large altarpieces to small devotional paintings and [[stained glass]] boxes.<ref name="K">Marga Kessler-van den Heuvel, "Meister der heiligen Sippe der Jüngere", Peter Lang, coll. ''Europäische Hochschulschriften Série XXVIII"" (no 75), 1987, ISBN 978-3-8204-1006-8</ref> The size of his output suggests that he was operating a large workshop. Speculation on where he may have originated and received his training centers on resemblances to the work of [[Stefan Lochner]] and certain [[Flemish painting|Flemish painters]], such as [[Rogier van der Weyden]], [[Justus van Gent]] and [[Hugo van der Goes]]. Connections have also been suggested with the [[Master of the Life of the Virgin]] and the [[Master of the Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece]].

One may distinguish two periods in his work. Around 1490, he appears to have made a trip to the Netherlands, after which his tones become darker, his [[Composition (visual arts)|composition]] more precise and his scenes more realistic. These new trends come to full fruition in an epitaph painted for the curé Jacob Udeman von Erkelenz, in 1492.
[[File:15th-century unknown painters - Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary - WGA23746.jpg|thumb|350px|The Seven Joys of Mary]]
Other major works include:
* An "Altarpiece of the Seven Joys of Mary" (c.1480). Originally in the [[Benedictine]] convent; now in the [[Louvre Museum]].
* Three "Masses of Saint Gregory" one each in the [[Museum Catharijneconvent]], the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (originally at [[Heisterbach Abbey]]) and [[Kolumba]] (The Diocesan Museum).
* "Circumcision", originally part of the altarpiece at the , now at the [[Alte Pinakothek]] in Munich. It was a donation from the Municipal Councilor, Johann von Questenberg and his wife.
* "Apocalyptic Madonna", at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum. It was commissioned by the family of Count [[Gumprecht II of Neuenahr]] in 1484, to commemorate his recent death.

== References==


== Further reading ==
* Frank Günter Zehnder, ''Gotische Malerei in Köln, Altkölner Bilder von 1300-1550'', 2nd ed., Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 1993

==External links==

* [http://bit.ly/2VHMlPX Master of the Holy Kinship] @ ''Larousse''



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[[Category:Religious artists]]
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