Master of Von Groote Adoration. The Master of the Von Groote Adoration is a notname given to an artist or a number of artists or various workshops active in Antwerp sometime between 1500 and 1520.
Whereas there are significant variations in the style of the works attributed to the master, the repetitions of certain subjects played an important role in the composition of the oeuvre. The master is considered a representative of the group of Antwerp mannerists who created works in an extravagant style in the early sixteenth century.
The master belonged to the group of Antwerp mannerists who got their notname from the art historian Max Jakob Friedländer when in 1915 he made an attempt to classify and attribute paintings that he deemed wrongly attributed to Herri met de Bles to a master or a workshop. The Master of the von Groote worship was the name given to the C group to which were assigned 19 works, of which 11 paintings 8 painted copies that fall stylistically outside the group.
The main work was a depiction of the Adoration of the Magi, then in the collection of Freiherr von Groote and now in the Städel Museum. The style differences within the original group are significant, but the number of repetitions of the same theme, in particular that of the Adoration of the Magi was important when putting the group together.
The Master of the Von Groote Adoration is considered a representative of Antwerp Mannerism. T