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Master Hugo (fl. c.1130-c.1150) was a Romanesque lay artist and the earliest recorded professional artist in England.

His documented career at Bury St Edmunds Abbey spans from before 1136 to after 1148. He is most famous for illuminating the first volume of the Bury Bible, which "have led to a general acknowledgement of Master Hugo as the gifted innovator of the main line of English Romanesque art".[1] This was made for the Abbey in about 1135, and is now in the Parker Library of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; it is not known whether he illuminated the second volume, of which only a small fragment is known to survive, now in a private collection in the United States. He is also recorded as making bronze doors for the western entry of the Abbey church, a great bell and a carved crucifix with figures of Mary and Saint John, for the Monk's Choir (probably a rood). He has been credited with having made the ivory Cloisters Cross (or "Bury St Edmunds Cross"), now at The Cloisters, New York,[2]

It is not known where Master Hugo was born or trained. According to the Fitzwilliam Museum, "the magnificent colour patterns of his paintings, the startlingly new Byzantine draperies and the deep-staring eyes of Moses, Aaron and the Jews suggest that he had travelled at least to southern Italy and probably also to Cyprus, Byzantium, and even the Holy Land."[3]

References

Further reading

• ‘Gesta sacristarum’, Memorials of St Edmund's Abbey, ed. T. Arnold, 2, Rolls Series, 96 (1892), 289–96
• C. M. Kauffmann, ‘The Bury Bible’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29 (1966), 60–81
• R. M. Thomson, ‘Early Romanesque book-illustration in England: the dates of the Pierpont Morgan Vitae sancti Edmundi and the Bury Bible’, Viator, 2 (1971), 211–25
• R. M. Thomson, ‘The date of the Bury Bible reexamined’, Viator, 6 (1975), 51–8
• Thomas Hoving, King of the Confessors. Simon & Schuster. New York, New York: 1981.
• C. R. Dodwell, The pictorial arts of the West, 800–1200 (1993), 341–7
• Elizabeth C. Parker & Charles T. Little, The Cloisters Cross. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, N.Y.: 1994.
• T. A. Heslop, ‘The production and artistry of the Bury Bible’, Bury St Edmunds: medieval art, architecture, archaeology, and economy, ed. A. Gransden (1998), 172–85

External links

• The Cloisters Cross

На других языках

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[de] Meister Hugo

Als Meister Hugo (engl. Master Hugo) ist in der Kunstgeschichte ein englischer Künstler des 12. Jahrhunderts bekannt. Er war als Buchmaler vor allem in Bury St. Edmunds in England tätig. Dort malte er in der Benediktinerabtei St. Edmund in der Regierungszeit des Abtes Anselm zwischen 1121 und 1148 im Auftrag des Sakristans Herveus ein Bibelmanuskript aus. Hugo werden auch weiter plastische Kunstwerke zugeordnet. Aus den Annalen des Klosters sind sein Name und einige seiner Werke bekannt[1].

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- [en] Master Hugo

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[fr] Maître Hugo

Maître Hugo est un artiste anglais, actif entre 1125 et 1156, à l'abbaye de Bury St Edmunds dans le Suffolk qui s'est illustré dans le domaine de l'enluminure et de la sculpture. C'est un des rares artistes romans dont les œuvres sont documentées.

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[it] Maestro Hugo

Maestro Hugo (... – ...; fl. XII secolo) è stato un miniatore, pittore e scultore inglese, primo artista professionista registrato in Inghilterra, responsabile di diversi capolavori di arte romanica locale.

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