Master IW

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Master IW (or I.W.) was a 16th-century Czech Renaissance painter of unknown origin from the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder. Among his masterpieces exceed The murder of St. Wenceslas (1543, St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague) and votive pictures now on view in Northbohemian Gallery, Litoměřice.[1][2]

Notes

  1. ^ Severočeská galerie Výtvarného umění v Litoměřicích - Galerie a muzeum litoměřické diecéze
  2. ^ Karel Chytil: Kdo byl mistr I.W.? in Památky archeologické a místopisné XVI, Praha 1895, pp. 555-558; Ladislav Kesner st.: Mistr IW., Galerie výtvarného umění, Litoměřice 1993