Master of Antwerp Adoration (1490 - 1550). Master of the Antwerp Adoration was a Flemish painter.His notname is from a triptych showing the Adoration of the Magi, acquired by the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts. He was active in Antwerp. According to the Netherlands Institute for Art History, he was identified by Max J. Friedlander as the same person as the Master of Linnich. Little else is known. Despite various attempts to match him to recorded names of artists of the time, a leading scholar described the question of his identity in 2007 as still up in smoke. Apart from the Antwerp triptych, another with the same main subject in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels is by the master, and Peter Van Den Brink suggests a large triptych altarpiece on the basis of several fragments. Several other works have been attributed.
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