The master, who ran one of the most prolific workshops of the northern Renaissance, derives his name from the series of works depicting half-length female figures behind a writing desk, reading, or playing a musical instrument, that he painted in Antwerp, but which were inspired by the art of Bruges, during the second and third decades of the 1500s.
Title: Saint Catherine
Author: Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1525-1550)
Date: 1530
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: cm 45 x 36
Current location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
The Master of the Female Half-Lengths (sometimes referred to as Master of the Half-Lengths) is the notname given to a painter, or more likely a group of painters of a workshop, active in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century.
The name was given in the 19th century to identify the maker or makers of a body of work consisting of 67 paintings to which since 40 more have been added.
The Master created female figures in genre scenes, small religious and mythological works, landscapes and portraits.
Titolo: Santa Caterina
Autore: Maestro delle mezze figure femminili (1525-1550)
Data: 1530
Materia e tecnica: Olio su tavola
Dimensioni: cm 45 x 36
Ubicazione: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Il dipinto è opera del pittore convenzionalmente identificato con il nome di Maestro delle mezze figure femminili, attivo nelle Fiandre alla fine del Cinquecento e vicino a Bernart van Orley, così definito in seguito all’identificazione della sua mano in una serie di ritratti femminili. | © Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
Il Maestro delle mezze figure femminili (fl. XVI secolo) è stato un pittore Olandese attivo presumibilmente fra il 1525-1550.
L'anonimo artista lavorò nel sud dei Paesi Bassi e probabilmente anche ad Anversa.
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