Master of the Turin Adoration

Nobody knows this painter's name. Art historians call him the Master of the Turin Adoration, after one large panel of the Three Kings in the Galleria Sabauda, and the label stands for a hand, or perhaps a workshop, active in the southern Netherlands from about 1490 to 1510.

Other pictures have gathered around that panel. The Philadelphia Museum of Art gives him a Christ Carrying the Cross of around 1500, in which the road to Calvary winds through a landscape filled with smaller scenes of the Passion, from the entry into Jerusalem to the Crucifixion. In 2018 Maria Clelia Galassi, an art historian at the University of Genoa, examined with infrared light the drawing hidden beneath the paint of panels in Turin and Genoa grouped under this name, to test whether they share a single hand or only a workshop.