The Visitation

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No written sources have been found so far on the life of the Master M S, the most important representative of Late Gothic painting in Hungary. The only clue concerning his activity is the date 1506 and the signature M S on the sarcophagus of one of his paintings, The Resurrection of Jesus Christ, held in the Christian Museum of Esztergom. There is even uncertainty concerning the identity of the church for which his closely associated paintings were made.

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About the Artist

Master M S

Hungarian painter from a mining town. Only six of his pictures are known which used to decorate the high altar of the Roman Catholic church in Selmecbánya. The initials and the date (1506) became visible after they were restored at the beginning of the 20th century. Little is known about the painter's person, a major representative of medieval Hungarian art. German art historians generally identify him with J. Brieu, a painter from Augsburg, disregarding the results of research done by Hungarian experts. The anonymous master is very likely to have been a painter called Sebestyén, whose name is mentioned in the charter of Selmecbánya in 1507. Research carried out so far appears to prove that he must have been identical with M.S. Master. His art combining dramatic depth and colourful decorative formation is akin to that of Dürer and mostly Grünewald.

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