Master of the Von Groote Adoration (active 1500-1520)

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Most of the artists of Antwerp Mannerism have remained anonymous and only some of the artists have been identified.

• They include Jan de Beer, Adriaen van Overbeke and the Master of 1518 (possibly Jan Mertens or Jan van Dornicke).

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