Il maestro di Santa Maria di Siracusa. Incontri e accordi di stile

Abstract

The aim of this article is to examine the historiographic positions of two Sicilian polypthics of International Gothic: the altarpiece of San Martino and the altarpiece of Santa Maria. It also offers an alternative interpretation of its stylistic contacts with contemporary pictorial production in the territories of the Catalan-Aragon Crown, especially between València and Castelló. It also points to the existence of two artists with different training, whose encounter, in the first decade of the 15th century, led to the creation of a vital pictorial workshop in Siracusa.