Master of Borsigliana

The Master of Borsigliana, also known as Pietro da Talada (active 1463-1499) was an Italian painter active in the Garafagnana, the mountainous corner of modern Tuscany, located North east of Lucca.

Assumption of the Madonna della Cintola, circa 1470.

Biography

Almost no details are known about his life.[1] He is a provincial painter who mixes influences from both the Tuscan Quattrocento and late Gothic period. He is known from pieces derived from a few religious paintings and predellas, including a tryptych at the church of Santa Maria Assunta, Borsigliana and a painting at Santa Maria Assunta at Stazzema. There is a painting of an enthroned Madonna at the Museo Nazionale of Villa Guinigi in Lucca.[2]

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