Plate with The Lover Tormented
Medium
Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), lustered
Dimensions
Overall: 1 3/16 × 10 5/8 in. (3 × 27 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
Italian, Gubbio
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, by exchange, 1965
Accession Number
65.6.10
Tags
About the Artist
Maestro Giorgio Andreoli|Painter of the Judgment of Paris · 1500–1550
**Maestro Giorgio Andreoli: The Luster Maestro of Gubbio** Giorgio di Pietro Andreoli, known as Maestro Giorgio or Mastro Giorgio da Gubbio, was born between 1465 and 1470 in Intra on Lake Maggiore, the son of potter Pietro Andreoli. After spending his youth in Pavia—where he was noted in documents as "son of Pietro da Pavia"—his family fled following the 1476 assassination of Duke Galeazzo Sforz...