The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (303 page)

Bohemian painter, active in the late 14th cent., named after his main work, three panels (
c.
1380–90) from an altarpiece originally in the monastery at T
ebo
(Wittingau) in the Czech Republic and now in the National Gallery, Prague. With him the art at the short-lived imperial court of Prague reached its climax. His style points west rather than south and shows particular affinities with Burgundian art and Melchior
Broederlam
.

 
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(active
c.
1470/80–
c.
1500).
Netherlandish painter, named after a picture representing the Virgin Mary surrounded by the virgin saints Barbara, Catherine, Cecilia, and Ursula (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). He worked in Delft, and his style is reflected in the woodcut illustrations (which he presumably designed) to several books published there between 1482 and 1498. About twenty paintings have been attributed to him, revealing a very distinctive and distinguished artist, who obtained his highly emotional effects through intense colours, desolate landscapes, and gaunt figures. His work is sometimes awkward but always sincere and involving. Two of his finest paintings are
The Crucifixion
(Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle) and
The Entombment
(Walker Art Gal., Liverpool).

 
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Master of Vy
i Brod
(or of Hohenfurth)
.

Bohemian painter, so called after his main work, a large altarpiece with scenes from the life of Christ (NG, Prague,
c.
1350) painted for the monastery of Vy
i Brod (Hohenfurth). These panels show the beginnings of the Bohemian variant of
International Gothic
. Another important painting from his workship, a
Death of the Virgin
, is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

 
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masterpiece
.

A term now loosely applied to the finest work by a particular artist or to any work of art of acknowledged greatness or of pre-eminence in its field. Originally it meant the piece of work by which a craftsman, having finished his training, gained the rank of ‘master’ in his guild.

 
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